BEIJING - Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon exchanged views on the Kyrgyz situation and other issues of common concern during a phone conversation Tuesday.

Clashes broke out between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks in mid-June in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh and later spread to the region of Jalalabad, killing at least 214 and displacing thousands of others.