U.S. pays to keep Kyrgyz base open for Afghan supply

2009/06/23 11:34:51 @Reuters: Top News

BISHKEK (Reuters) - The United States has agreed to pay $180 million to Kyrgyzstan to keep open the last remaining U.S. air base in Central Asia which is used to supply troops fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=u-TyX3IOB7I:7TS2hUvdC0g:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=u-TyX3IOB7I:7TS2hUvdC0g:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=u-TyX3IOB7I:7TS2hUvdC0g:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=u-TyX3IOB7I:7TS2hUvdC0g:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=u-TyX3IOB7I:7TS2hUvdC0g:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/u-TyX3IOB7I" height="1" width="1"/
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