United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has named former president of Kyrgyzstan Roza Otunbaeva as the UN's new special representative for Afghanistan.
June 10, 2010 started like any other day for Semetei Akhmatov. The then-21-year-old packed his bag and headed to university in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second largest city, where he was in the second year of a law degree. But he never returned. “We have no information about him since then. Twelve years have passed but they are like 12 days for us,” Zhyldyzkan Eskulova, Semetei’s mother, told IWPR. “Semetei was in the spring of his life…He had transferred to the correspondence department because of his job and took the examinations.