He said the scheme was an "important step in both countries' efforts to strengthen, broaden and deepen security and particularly military-to-military cooperation".
The deportations came three days after Kyrgyz and Uzbek agents killed an influential Muslim cleric in Osh, in southern Kyrgyzstan, in a joint operation that underscored deepening security cooperation between the countries.
Majdoub said the focus was on trying to deepen security co-operation, including the exchange of information and training, particularly at a time when Tunisians may be returning to their birthplace after fighting with Isis in Syria or Libya.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — As Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton worked hard on Saturday to focus attention on deepening security ties with the Arab nations of the Persian Gulf, she found herself having to deal with a surprising act of diplomatic defiance: the decision by the United Arab Emirates, an ally, to shutter the offices of an American-financed group that promotes democracy.
The interim prime minister, Hazem el-Beblawi, a respected 76-year-old economist, faces an economy in free fall, deepening security challenges in the Sinai Peninsula and elsewhere, and a drop in tourism that has choked off a critical source of foreign currency.
White House officials have been anxious to stress that the mixture of princes and senior ministers attending in their absence when the summit moves to the wooded presidential retreat at Camp David on Thursday will be more than capable of completing the agenda of "modernising and deepening security cooperation" between the US and GCC countries.
US officials recently announced plans to deepen security cooperation with the Kurds in Syria.
Though less strident than expected, the United States Secretary of Defense Ash Carter's speech was an attempt to provide unequivocal justification for America's growing military footprint in Asia and its deepening security alliances with a wide array of regional powers.
The region most concerned by uncertainty over US intentions is East and Southeast Asia, where China's nervous neighbors hope to hedge against too heavy an economic dependence on fast-expanding China with deepening security and trade relations with the United States.
It follows a pledge by Japan to invest $35 billion in India over the next five years - including the introduction of bullet trains - and a drive to deepen security ties during talks earlier this month between Modi and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo.
