Nazarbayev instructed Defense Ministry to put forward for decoration pilots who took out K.Bakiyev from Kyrgyzstan
18:47, 16 April 2010
ASTANA. April 16. KAZINFORM /Kanat Kulshmanov/ Head of the State Nursultan Nazarbayev has instructed the Ministry of Defense to reward the pilots who took Kurmanbek Bakiyev from Kyrgyzstan. The Kazakh leader said at a press conference in Akorda.
"Our pilots took a risk. I am grateful to them and ordered the Minister of Defense to put them forward for decoration", N. Nazarbayev noted.
As reported earlier, yesterday at 6.30 p.m. the plane took off from Almaty to Jalal-Abad and at 8.15 p.m. it landed in Kazakhstan with Kyrgyz ex-president Bakiyev and his family on board.