Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will on Saturday attend an informal OSCE foreign ministerial meeting in Kazakhstan.
The informal summit will discuss global security, the situations in Kyrgyzstan after violent ethnic clashes and in Afghanistan, as well as Russia's European security treaty initiative.
Violent clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan broke out in the city of Osh on June 11 and then spread to the neighboring Jalalabad region. Unofficial estimates put the death toll at about 2,000 people, while half a million may have been made homeless by the violent pogroms, which saw thousands of homes burned.
