Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry says the presidents of the United States, Russia and Kazakhstan helped arrange for Kyrgyzstan's deposed president to leave the country, APreported.
Ministry spokesman Ilyas Omarov says President Barack Obama, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev reached an agreement that let ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev fly to Kazakhstan on Thursday.
Witnesses say Bakiyev flew out from the southern city of Jalal-Abad in a military transport aircraft.
His departure will likely assuage tensions and ease fears of new violence in the Central Asian nation that hosts a key U.S. military base backing the war in Afghanistan.
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