US to lose access to key military base after Russian ally cancels lease
June 27, 2013
Source: Voice of Russia
The United States will lose access to a vital military logistics hub in Central Asia in 2014 following the Kyrgyz president's decision Wednesday to cancel a lease agreement for a military base.
President Almazbek Atambayev signed a law Wednesday that repudiates a 2009 lease agreement, with effect from July 2014, the president's website said in a statement.
The Kyrgyz parliament approved the law last week.
Officially dubbed "Transit Centre," the Manas air base has served as a supply hub for US troops in Afghanistan since 2001.
It has been the subject of much political bargaining between Washington and the Kyrgyz government in Bishkek.
In 2009, the US signed on to a new agreement under significantly higher lease payments of 60 million dollars annually.
That agreement expires in 2014 anyway, but the renunciation law prevents it from being renewed.
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The United States will lose access to a vital military logistics hub in Central Asia in 2014 following the Kyrgyz president's decision Wednesday to cancel a lease agreement for a military base.
President Almazbek Atambayev signed a law Wednesday that repudiates a 2009 lease agreement, with effect from July 2014, the president's website said in a statement.
The Kyrgyz parliament approved the law last week.
Officially dubbed "Transit Centre," the Manas air base has served as a supply hub for US troops in Afghanistan since 2001.
It has been the subject of much political bargaining between Washington and the Kyrgyz government in Bishkek.
In 2009, the US signed on to a new agreement under significantly higher lease payments of 60 million dollars annually.
That agreement expires in 2014 anyway, but the renunciation law prevents it from being renewed.
Read More...
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