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Tuesday, November 01, 2011
New Kyrgyz president calls for closure of U.S. air base
Manas Air Base, Kyrgyzstan which is also called Ganci Air Base unofficially
Kyrgyzstan’s President-elect Almazbek Atambayev has called for the closure of the United States’ airbase at Manas in the central Asian republic.
“I don’t think the base at Manas guarantees the security of our country. I would not want to see another country carry out a retaliatory strike against the base. A civil airport is a civil object, and it should remain so,” he said.
Kyrgyzstan “would observe all international agreements,” he stressed, but when the current Manas base agreement expires in 2014, the American facility there should go.
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