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Kyrgyz parliament receives decree to denounce agreement with U.S. on air base

Politics Materials 4 February 2009 17:56 (UTC +04:00)

Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, Feb.4 / Trend corr A. Taniyev /

The Kyrgyz parliament received a draft decree to annul an agreement signed in 2001 to allow coalition forces to use the Manas Air Base.

A parliamentary official told Trend that the document will be reviewed at a session on Feb. 5.

Manas will be shut down, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said at a news conference in Moscow.

The air base was launched in December 2001 by an UN mandate to support coalition forces in anti-terrorism operations in Afghanistan.

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