Kazakh Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), warned Saturday that the complicated situation in Kyrgyzstan poses threat to security and stability in the region and beyond, Xinhua reported.
Speaking at the OSCE informal foreign ministers' meeting at a resort outside Almaty, Saudabayev said that measures must be taken to help restore stability in Kyrgyzstan by taking advantage of OSCE experiences and swiftly coordinating efforts of the international community.
He said that the OSCE is speeding up its work on a package plan aimed at promoting the peace process in Kyrgyzstan, which was battered by deadly riots in June in the south.
More than 300 people have been killed during the clashes, raising fears that the country was on brink of falling into a civil war.
Russia has turned down a Kyrgyz request to send peace missions to the country.
The OSCE said on Friday it would send a 52-member police force to southern Kyrgyzstan to monitor the fragile peace after last month's fierce ethnic clashes. Kyrgyzstan's interim President Rosa Otunbayeva has accepted the offer.
The July 16-17 informal ministerial meeting was called by Kazakhstan which holds the OSCE's rotating chair in 2010, and will try to make a tentative decision on whether to convene a summit by the end of the year.
Other topics on the agenda of the meeting include the situation in Afghanistan, the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, and OSCE's participation in international peacekeeping operations.