Kyrgyz acting president says battling poverty is top priority

  • 12/15/2022
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Vienna, Austria, May 30, SPA -- Fighting corruption, battlingpoverty and improving living standards are Kyrgyzstan'smain priorities, the Central Asian country's actingpresident told a key security group Monday. In a speech to the Vienna-based Organization for Security andCooperation in Europe Kurmanbek Bakiyev said : "The government is currently working on a set of comprehensive actions to combat corruption, designed primarily to prevent, not to persecute, aiming to identify and eradicate the preconditions for corruption. The Associated Press reported he later told a news conference that Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan would create working commissions that would, with the help of the United Nations, evaluate the status ofUzbeks who have sought refuge in Kyrgyzstan following abloody government crackdown at home.--SPA1457 Local Time 1157 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/266165

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