Main news of May 15

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* International organizations and representatives of the Kyrgyz interim government have drawn up a package of priority measures for stabilizing the situation in Kyrgystan, OSCE Special envoy for Kyrgyzstan said

* The EU will allocate $51 million in the period until 2013 towards legal and health care reforms in Kyrgyzstan

* Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko approved a government plan to issue Eurobonds worth $2 billion

* King Abdullah II of Jordan arrived in Azerbaijan on an official visitto discuss a range of agreements concerning Jordanian-Azerbaijani bilateral agreements

* Russian will provide Kyrgyzstan with assistance to help improve the situation in the Central Asian republic, which was recently hit by a new wave of unrest

RUSSIA

* Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said the social-economic situation in the Russian capital is stable and unemployment has dropped to less than 1%

* Police arrested 28 people for blocking a rail road during protests in the mining town of Mezhdurechensk in western Siberia

*Russian Premier League side Krylya Sovetov owes its players and staff $7 million, the club's vice president said on its website

* Kemerovo Region Governor Aman Tuleyev blamed the fatal accident at the Raspadskaya coalmine on the owners of the mine

* A day of mourning was observed in Russia's Kemerovo Region for the victims of last weekend's coalmine disaster in which at least 66 people died

* Russian emergency workers started to pump water into the west Siberian mine where at least 66 people died in an accident last week, a regional emergencies ministry official said.

*World-renowned French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier has staged a fashion show in one of Moscow's oldest train stations, fulfilling the designer's life-long dream