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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Tajikistan, Russia seek base lease deal


A total of 7,000 Russian troops are serving at three Russian military units in Dushanbe
Talks on continued use of a base in Tajikistan by the Russian military are still in progress and agreement on a new, market-based lease of the facility will strengthen ties between the two countries, an adviser to Tajikistan's president said Wednesday.

"Negotiations between the two sides on extending the [Russian military] presence in Tajikistan beyond 2014 are currently being held at the working-group level," Sukhrob Sharipov, director of the presidential Center for Strategic Studies in Dushanbe, told RIA Novosti.

He said both sides agreed that it was time to review the terms of Russia's use of the base and now only the details of a new agreement had to be worked out.

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