Kazakh Foreign Minister condemns Moscow metro attacks
By ANITuesday, March 30, 2010
ASTANA - Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairperson Kanat Saudabayev has condemned Monday’s bomb attacks on the Moscow metro system that claimed the lives of 38 people and injured over 60.
In a statement issued here in the wake of the attacks, Saudabayev said: “I am deeply shocked by these inhumane attacks, and I condemn them harshly. In this hour of sorrow, I offer my deepest sympathies to the families of the victims, and to the Russian people and government.”
Kazakhstan holds the rotating chairmanship of the Vienna-based OSCE, whose 56 member countries include Russia and the United States.
Kazakhstan has attached great importance to combating the new threats and challenges of the modern age, especially international terrorism, religious extremism and the various orms of illicit trafficking and organized crime. (ANI)
