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USA mulls setting up training center for Kyzgyz special task force.
BISHKEK, March 18 (Itar-Tass) - Kyrgyzstan and the United States are
considering the possibility to set up a training center for Kyrgyz
servicemen in the south of the republic. The project is to be funded by
the USA.
"At present, we're working, together with the U.S. side, on the issue
to build a training center in the south of the country worth 5.5 million
dollars," The press service of the Kyrgyz Defense Ministry said in a state
on Thursday.
"The center will comprise barracks, a mess hall, an obstacle zone and
classrooms. The center will provide training for special task force units
of all Kyrgyz law-enforcement bodies.
"The construction of the facility is a project in bilateral
Kyrgyz-American relations in fighting international terrorism, religious
extremism, cross-border organized crime and drug trafficking, and is not
aimed against third countries.
"The project does not contradict the republic's commitments within the
framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and other
international organizations," it said.
According to the Kyrgyz ministry, the republic currently engages in
military cooperation with 37 countries.
Earlier, the US funded the construction of administrative buildings
and barracks at a military unit in the town of Tokmok, and a surgery unit
of the military hospital in the village of Besh-Kungei, within the
framework of the Kyrgyz-American program of funding military projects
abroad.
The above program envisions the building of a unified training center
in the military unit located in the village of Koi-Tash, the Kyrgyz
Defense Ministry said.
Earlier this month, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei
Nesterenko, in comments on the Kyrgyz-U.S. training center project, said
their cooperation was a sovereign matter between the two countries.
"The development of the Kyrgyz-US cooperation in the field of security
is a sovereign matter of the two parties," the diplomat said.
Kyrgyzstan has accommodated a U.S. air base since December 2001. Last
summer, it was renamed to the center of transit shipment center. Its
functions include the support of the anti-terrorist operation in
Afghanistan, conducted by the international coalition.
-0-myz/gor
considering the possibility to set up a training center for Kyrgyz
servicemen in the south of the republic. The project is to be funded by
the USA.
"At present, we're working, together with the U.S. side, on the issue
to build a training center in the south of the country worth 5.5 million
dollars," The press service of the Kyrgyz Defense Ministry said in a state
on Thursday.
"The center will comprise barracks, a mess hall, an obstacle zone and
classrooms. The center will provide training for special task force units
of all Kyrgyz law-enforcement bodies.
"The construction of the facility is a project in bilateral
Kyrgyz-American relations in fighting international terrorism, religious
extremism, cross-border organized crime and drug trafficking, and is not
aimed against third countries.
"The project does not contradict the republic's commitments within the
framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and other
international organizations," it said.
According to the Kyrgyz ministry, the republic currently engages in
military cooperation with 37 countries.
Earlier, the US funded the construction of administrative buildings
and barracks at a military unit in the town of Tokmok, and a surgery unit
of the military hospital in the village of Besh-Kungei, within the
framework of the Kyrgyz-American program of funding military projects
abroad.
The above program envisions the building of a unified training center
in the military unit located in the village of Koi-Tash, the Kyrgyz
Defense Ministry said.
Earlier this month, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei
Nesterenko, in comments on the Kyrgyz-U.S. training center project, said
their cooperation was a sovereign matter between the two countries.
"The development of the Kyrgyz-US cooperation in the field of security
is a sovereign matter of the two parties," the diplomat said.
Kyrgyzstan has accommodated a U.S. air base since December 2001. Last
summer, it was renamed to the center of transit shipment center. Its
functions include the support of the anti-terrorist operation in
Afghanistan, conducted by the international coalition.
-0-myz/gor
