Final meeting of the Commission on Hindu issue

Today (22 December) the inter-agency Commission for investigation of the land issue of the Religious Organization "Society for Krishna Consciousness" in the Karasai district of Almaty province held a meeting for what the chairman of the Commission Amanbek Mukhashov described as "discussion of the results of the Commission's work". In addition to state representatives, those present were Hare Krishna representatives, a member of the OSCE office in Almaty, and Ninel Fokina of the Almaty Helsinki Committee.

The chairman Mukhashov refused to allow the journalists to participate at the meeting.

The meeting was presented with the Commission's previously circulated Conclusions. This Conclusions without any changes became the final Minutes #4 of the meeting dated December 22, 2006.

Previously the Ministry of Foreign Affairs presented the Commission's conclusions to diplomats from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. When the document was presented to representatives of different government it was an undated document. And the Ministry of Foreign Affairs alleges that the document was prepared prior to the demolition. This contradicts the statements of the Commission who told immediately prior to the demolition that the work was still in progress.
 
No one of the members of the Commission addressed the key question of why, how and when the Conclusions were made. Hindus as a member of the Commission were not participating in such a meetings and were not informed of any kind of conclusions as well as human rights observers.