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Monday, December 16, 2013
Russia to Begin Arms Shipments to Kyrgyzstan
Last month Kyrgyzstan officially notified the United States that American access to Kyrgyzstan’s Manas airbase will be suspended next summer
Russia will begin arms shipments to Kyrgyzstan in the near future as part of a $1 billion deal signed last year to modernize the Central Asian country’s military, Kyrgyzstan’s president said at a news conference Monday.
“After reaching a historic agreement with Russia to reorganize our armed forces, all of the paperwork has been completed and we will soon receive deliveries of artillery pieces, tanks, shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles and other military equipment,” Almazbek Atambayev said.
He said the newly modernized army will be ready to defend the country by 2017.
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