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Kyrgyz budget to lose $200 mln after Manas transit centre agreement denunciation

Kyrgyzstan Materials 10 June 2013 15:57 (UTC +04:00)
Kyrgyz budget will lose $200 million after the Manas transit center agreement denunciation , KyrTAG quotes the country’s first vice-prime Minister Djoomart Otorbayev as saying on Monday.
Kyrgyz budget to lose $200 mln after Manas transit centre agreement denunciation

Azerbaijan, Baku, June 10 / Trend V. Zhavoronkova/

Kyrgyz budget will lose $200 million after the Manas transit center agreement denunciation , KyrTAG quotes the country's first vice-prime Minister Djoomart Otorbayev as saying on Monday.

The denunciation of the agreement will bring to the loss of a significant tax volume.

Manas transit centre pay $60 million to Kyrgyz budget for the lease of the territory annually.

Over 1 thousand people work for the centre, nearly 1 thousand companies in Kyrgyzstan are connected to Manas.

The agreement on the lease of Manas with the U.S. expires in 2014.

The Transit Centre at the airport, formerly called military base, was opened in late 2001 after the U.S launched its operation in Afghanistan. At present, it accommodates about 1,200 U.S soldiers.

According to Pentagon statistics, the base handles up to 15,000 coalition servicemen and 500 tons of cargoes a month.

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