Uzbekistan to reassess presence of US base with Afghan border 08.07.2005 TASHKENT: Uzbekistan will reassess Washington’s use of an airbase close to its border with Afghanistan due to the changed situation there and payment problems concerning the base, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. “The presence of the armed forces contingent at Khanabad was always ... conditional on a direct connection with the conduct of the military operation in northern Afghanistan,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “Other prospects for the presence of the US armed forces contingent on the territory of Uzbekistan were not considered by the Uzbek side.” In talks with Washington, Tashkent intends to raise a number of financial issues linked to the base, including compensation for ecological damage, payment for infrastructure improvements and the take-off and landing of US planes from the base. The reassessment plans could be seen as retaliation for US criticism of a military crackdown in the eastern Uzbek province of Andijan on May 13, in which hundreds of people are feared to have died. “In the opinion of the Uzbek Foreign Ministry, these fundamental considerations should be the basis for discussion of the question of the future presence of the US armed forces contingent at Khanabad,” the ministry said. << | >> |
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