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Friday, October 10, 2003

 

Russian Official Cautions U.S. on Use of Central Asian Bases  

Russian Official Cautions U.S. on Use of Central Asian Bases: "Russian Official Cautions U.S. on Use of Central Asian Bases
By THOM SHANKER

Published: October 10, 2003

Associated Press
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, bottom left, with two of his counterparts, Linas Linkevicius of Lithuania, top left, and Ioan Mircea Pascu of Romania, top right. At bottom right is Peter Ricketts, Britain's NATO envoy. They attended a NATO meeting in Colorado yesterday.


COLORADO SPRINGS, Oct. 9 — Defense Minister Sergei B. Ivanov of Russia said Thursday that his government expected the American military to withdraw from bases in two former Soviet republics in Central Asia once the mission in Afghanistan was completed.
On a day spent reassuring NATO defense ministers that Russia seeks broader cooperation with the Atlantic alliance and has no plans to announce a policy of nuclear pre-emption, Mr. Ivanov also said Russia reserved the right to intervene militarily in former Soviet states if the human rights of ethnic Russians were violated."





Interesting. No-one with half a brain thinks that there's anything that what's left of the USSR can threaten anyone or anything. Makes me wonder exactly what their real motives are for airing this stuff.


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