10:09, 12 октября 2022, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Tatyana KUDRYAVTSEVA
Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Edil Baisalov, as part of his working trip to the city of Geneva (Switzerland), made a speech at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Press service of the Cabinet reported.
He presented a detailed report on the tragic consequences of the armed attack on September 14-16, 2022 by the Tajik side on the peaceful villages in Batken region. The speech was followed by a discussion with the Director of the Geneva Centre, a Swiss diplomat and former OSCE Secretary-General, Ambassador Thomas Greminger, on possible ways to use the tools of diplomacy in resolving disputes between countries.
The event was held as part of a series of «Geneva Security Debates» of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy at the initiative of the Permanent Mission of Kyrgyzstan to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in the city of Geneva. During the debates, the speakers answered numerous questions from the Geneva’s diplomatic corps, academia, analysts, journalists and students.
The participants of the event had the opportunity to get acquainted with the photo exhibition, demonstrating the evidence of the results of aggression, numerous human casualties, destruction of infrastructure and economic damage.
The Geneva Centre for Security Policy is an international foundation established in 1995 under Swiss law to promote the building and maintenance of peace, security and stability.
Shooting began at several sites of the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on the morning of September 16. Settlements in Leilek and Batken district came under fire. The Ministry of Health reported 206 victims, 63 people were killed. As a result of the armed conflict on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border, residents of seven villages in Batken and Leilek districts, as well as Dzhekendi village in Chon-Alai district of Osh region, left their homes.
The Prosecutor General’s Office of Kyrgyzstan opened a criminal case on crimes against peace.