By DPA,
New York : The UN Security Council has condemned the violence in southern Kyrgyzstan and called for the restoration of law and order.
The president of the 15-member Security Council, Claude Heller, said Monday night that it was time to send food and other aid to the crisis-hit region.
The fighting between ethnic Kyrgyz majority and Uzbek minority has left at least 120 dead and over 1,500 injured, primarily in the southern Kyrgyz cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad.
At least 100,000 Uzbeks were said to have fled from the southern cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad.
There are expectations in Kyrgyzstan that Russian peacekeeping soldiers are to be deployed to the south of Kyrgyzstan.
That was the case 20 years ago when similar unrest broke out and Soviet troops were sent to restore order.