AKIPRESS.COM - The delegate representing ethnic minorities, Zukhra Shchetakova, appealed to Kyrgyzstanis on behalf of peoples deported to Kyrgyzstan in 1943.

"Thank you for the warm welcome in those years, for not abandoning us in those difficult moments, for providing all possible assistance to all deported peoples. Thank you very much for all this," she told Kyrgyzstanis during the second kurultai on December 16.