A special commission will determine the exact cause of power outages in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, as well as the location of the accident, Akylbek Zhaparov, head of the Kyrgyz Cabinet of Ministers, said on Tuesday.
"It didn't exactly happen on our territory, we can say that and prove it to our neighbors. I think that a commission set up by the governments of three countries will be able to determine where exactly it happened and why it happened and to make sure that we won't let it happen again," said Zhaparov.
He added that the consequences of the power outage on the territory of Kyrgyzstan will be eliminated soon.
"The consequences of the accident will be completely eliminated in the near future," he said. According to him, the republic has sufficient resources for this. As Zhaparov noted, Kyrgyz power engineers showed professionalism in the critical situation and did not allow the failure of technical equipment, so all strategic facilities of the country are now working in normal mode.
The head of the government said that the work of the energy system is being restored, half of the population of Kyrgyzstan is already receiving electricity. "Already more than 50% of the population is connected. Our power engineers have shown that they are ready for such situations," the Akipress news agency quoted the prime minister as saying.
"I hope that such anxiety that we created because of this accident will be eliminated. Our internal capabilities are sufficient to establish an uninterrupted power supply for the entire country," the agency quoted the Kyrgyz prime minister as saying.
In turn, at a joint press conference on Tuesday, Kyrgyz Energy Minister Dostuk Bekmurzaev said that the work of the three countries in a single energy ring "gives reliability" to the republics. "But today there was an out-of-state situation that I don't want to comment on, there will be an investigation and we will publish what happened," the minister said. "We are fraternal nations, neighbors, we must always work together, the power system is one," he stressed.
As Bekmurzaev told reporters, "as soon as each republic restores its [autonomous] [power] mode, naturally [all] will be synchronized and reconnected to the single energy ring."
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Based on materials from TASS