Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, currently on a trip to Africa, has telephoned Kazakh Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Kanat Saudabayev about the situation in Kyrgyzstan.

Both agreed that everything possible must be done to help defuse the situation and restore law and order in the country.

The Kazakh Foreign Minister assured Westerwelle that any foreign nationals wishing to leave Kyrgyzstan, which shares a border with Kazakhstan, would be given unbureaucratic assistance.