Kyrgyzstan lowers state flags at embassies, consulates

Kyrgyzstan has lowered state flags at half-mast today on the territories of its diplomatic missions due to national mourning, Report informs, citing the Kyrgyz Foreign Affairs Ministry.

“In memory of the citizens who became victims of the armed conflict on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border in the Batken region of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic, all diplomatic and consular institutions of the Kyrgyz Republic abroad have lowered state flags and opened books of condolences,” reads the ministry’s message.

The decree on the declaration of national mourning in Kyrgyzstan on May 1-2 was signed yesterday by the country’s President Sadyr Japarov.

According to the Kyrgyz Health Ministry, as a result of the conflict on the border with Tajikistan, 33 residents of Kyrgyzstan were killed, more than 120 were injured.