Belarsuian diplomats fled from Bishkek

The Belarusian Foreign Ministry states that diplomats have left Kyrgyzstan "purely for security reasons".

All Belarusian diplomats accredited in Kyrgyzstan have left its capital "purely for reasons of security", "Interfax" was told by the spokesperson of the FM Andrei Savinykh.

As said by him, Viktar Dzenisenka, Belarusian Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, "has been recelled for consulations to Minsk, and the staff of our embassy are assigned to the Belarusian capital at disposal ofthe Foreign Ministry of the country". The diplomat noted that departure of the Belarusian diplomats from Kyrgyzstan "is a temporary measure connected exclusively with the physical threat to health and lives of our diplomats in Bishkek". As said by him, it is caused "by extremists which are beyond any control".

Savinykh stated that the Belarusian diplomats "are to return to their duties in Kyrgyzstan as soon as the situation there would come to normal". "I undrline: this decision is not connected to any other factors but security reasons," the spokesperson said.

Kurmanbek Bakiyev is in Blearus since April 19. The decision to offer a political asylum to him was adopted by Alyaksandr Lukashenka personally. It caused protect of Kyrgyzstan citizens and relatives of killed demonstrators at whom Bakiyev ordered to shoot. Pickets are held near the Embassy of Belarus in Bishkek constantly. The new government of Kyrgyzstan demands to extradite Bakiyev to his country, however the Belarusian authorities refuse to do that.