Kyrgyz Prime Minister promised to withdraw Manas U.S. airbase in 2014. Almazbek Atambayev told in his interview to Russian journalists, 24.kg reported.
Answering the question when the Russian-Kyrgyz joint venture on fuel supply to Manas airbase will work the head of the Government noted that "it is a very serious topic. It is suffice to say that American base consumes a significant amount of jet fuel during the year. And the intensity of traffic on our route will accrue during the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan."
"The situation when kerosene was supplied to the base through a series of unintelligible middlemen is reaching back. We have already agreed on a contract in all respects, in terms of deliveries, in volume with the Russian side and with the USA. The contract will be signed in September and the first delivers will begin. We will start with ambitious plans; the joint venture must demonstrate that it copes with assumed obligations within three months. Then in prospect we want to bring its share in the supplies of up to 90 percent of all jet fuel the base requires," noted Almazbek Atambayev.
The Prime Minister said to the question whether the U.S. base remains in Kyrgyzstan: "You know, the former leadership of KR with their biased attitude towards the undertaken international obligations has already spoiled outside image of Kyrgyzstan. In order to break that image somehow, we just have to execute an already concluded agreement. The contract for the Transit Center will expire in 2014. Our position is the following: we will notify in six months the U.S. side of the termination of the contract in full compliance with assumed obligations and from 2014 there will be the first major civilian international transport junction. Any capital can participate in the formation of his transport junction even though the Russian although the western."