Embassy of Uzbekistan sends a note to MFA of Kazakhstan

This was announced by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Yusup Kabuljanov.

According to him, the other day in a number of mass media, with reference to the Ombudsman of Kazakhstan for Human Rights Elvira Azimova, information was disseminated that in Kazakhstan, after mass riots in January of this year, 18 foreigners remain under arrest, including 14 citizens of Uzbekistan.

“To clarify this fact, the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Nur-Sultan sent a corresponding note to the MFA of Kazakhstan with a request to provide detailed information about the arrested citizens of Uzbekistan, their places of detention, the reasons for bringing them to justice, and also to organize a consular meeting with them for employees of diplomatic missions of Uzbekistan in Republic of Kazakhstan,” he said.

Yusup Kabuljanov stressed that the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Nur-Sultan, as well as the consulates general in Almaty and Aktau, are in constant contact with representatives of law enforcement agencies of Kazakhstan at places.

It should be recalled that earlier in Kazakhstan, a well-known lawyer Aiman   Umarova named the countries where the militants came from. According to her, among them were immigrants from China, Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia.