Kyrgyzstan plans to end U.S. airbase deal

RIA Novosti – Russia
12 January 2009

Kyrgyzstan’s president plans to terminate an agreement with the U.S. on a military airbase in the Central Asian state …

President Kurmanbek Bakiyev … plans to sign a decree ordering the closure within six months of the Gansi base, located at Manas airport in the country’s capital, Bishkek, which the U.S. has run since the 2001 antiterrorism war in Afghanistan …

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