OSH, Kyrgyzstan -- Fifty children between 10 and 15 years of age have left southern Kyrgyzstan for vacation and medical treatment in Kazakhstan, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
The Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry's press service said that on July 25 the children from Kyrgyzstan's Suzak, Bazar-Korgon, Nooken, and Ala-Buka districts went to a children's health center in Kazakhstan's Zhambyl Oblast.
Kazakh authorities initiated the program for children from Jalal-Abad, the scene of violent clashes between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz from June 10-15.
The Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry said the group is made up of both Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbek children.