Finnish Foreign Minister Proposes E.U. Mission For Kyrgyzstan

Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb urged the European Union to send a civilian rapid-reaction force to southern Kyrgyzstan, reports YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Corp.

The mission could be sent within three days, once the situation stabilizes sufficiently, Stubb said during a meeting of foreign ministers in Luxembourg.

Under the proposed plan, peacekeepers would perform police and guard duties and otherwise help defuse the ethnic violence that has erupted in the...