ASTANA, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Kazakhstan will continue to work on the return of its citizens from the zones of armed conflict, President Nursultan Nazarbayev said on Wednesday.
The president noted that work is ahead on the rehabilitation and adaptation of the returned people to peaceful life.
"Now we need to adapt them. Small children, when they returned to kazakhstan and left the plane, asked their mothers: 'will we be bombed?' They have become accustomed to bombing from birth," the head of state remarked.
On Jan. 9 this year, Nazarbayev made a statement in connection with completed humanitarian mission on evacuating Kazakhstan's people from Syria. According to the statement, on Jan. 6 this year, in a humanitarian operation carried out by law enforcement agencies and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, 47 citizens of the country, including 30 children, were evacuated from Syria.
They were cheated into the country in crisis, and found themselves to be terrorist hostages. Upon arrival in Kazakhstan, the women and children were given all possible assistance from the state. These innocent people, who were in such a difficult situation, were immensely glad to be saved. For a month they will be under adaptation and receive necessary medical care, the president said.
"Kazakhstan always supports its citizens, regardless of their location. Our main task is to ensure security, protect the integrity and unity of the country. We will continue to return children who are in the combat zone against their will," Nazarbayev added in the statement.
