United States, Kyrgyzstan solve payment dispute over US base
Saturday, July 15, 2006
BISHKEK: The United States and Kyrgyzstan have resolved a payment dispute that had threatened the future of the US military base in this ex-Soviet republic, the US Embassy and the Kyrgyz government said on Friday.
The United States will pay the Central Asian nation “more than $150 million in compensation and assistance over the next year” for stationing its troops here, the embassy said in a joint statement with the Kyrgyz government.
Kyrgyzstan had proposed that Washington pay $200 million a year - a tenfold increase - for use of the base, set up in 2001 to support operations in Afghanistan.
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