UN Asks for $71 Million in Relief Appeal After Ethnic Violence in Kyrgyzstan

by Gary Kopycinski on June 19, 2010

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NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–19 June 2010 – The United Nations yesterday called for $71 million to assist hundreds of thousands of people affected by ethnic conflict in Kyrgyzstan, as the top UN official in Central Asia said an international security presence may be needed to calm tensions and prevent a fresh eruption of the deadly violence that rocked the country a week ago.