Kyrgyzstan Base Closure Decision ‘Final’
US Scrambles to Find Alternatives: Can Tajikistan Fill the Void?
While the United States has continued to express hope that it would retain its base outside of Bishkek, the government of Kyrgyzstan has reiterated that their decision to oust the US from the base is final, and that there are no discussions on them keeping the base.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has expressed “regret” at the decision, and the United States is left scrambling to try to find other alternatives to the increasingly important overland supply route to Afghanistan. Russia has said they will cooperate, as has Tajikistan which has said it would allow humanitarian supplies into Afghanistan.
Many fingers have been pointed at Russia over the base closure, with reports that they offered Kyrgyzstan an enormous amount of aid to oust the US. Russia has been aiming at creating a military alliance in Central Asia called the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). The alliance will include both Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, and Belarus, giving them effective control over the northern border of Afghanistan.
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September 26th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
These US air bases have a hard time finding a happy landlord , WHY ? United States was paying big bucks for the oppertunity to protect Poland and Czech . more than 70 % of the people in those countries did not want our protection . We bombed little Serbia for more than 70 days with more bombs that dropped on Germany in WW2 during any 78 day time period . That must have really hurt the new Serbian democracy , Why ? Was it to get another airbase bondsteal in Serbia ? Did we seperate Kosovo from Serbia for the Bondsteal airbase ? Kinda like we seperated Panama from Columbia for the Panama cannal ? How many countries have kicked out US airbases in the last thirty yrs . I think more than a few .