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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9005

5 August 2005
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/kyrgyzstan/uzbekistan

04/08/2005 (Agence Europe) - Javier Solana, EU High Representative for CFSP, wrote to President Bakiyev on Thursday thanking the Kyrgyz authorities for having cooperated with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in transferring 439 Uzbeks to a third country (Romania). The Uzbeks had fled their country in the aftermath of the violence in Andijan and taken refuge in Kyrgyzstan. Mr Solana also expressed his concern for the fate of 15 refugees who “still remain in detention in...