Kazakhstan denies more space to Russia for falling fragments from Baikonur.

MOSCOW, September 23 (Itar-Tass) - Kazakhstan has denied providing
more territories to Russia used for detachable parts of Russian spacecraft launched from Baikonur, said Chairman of the Kazakh Space Agency Talgat Musabayev at a meeting of the Russo-Kazakh sub-commission for Baikonur held Tuesday.

"We understand Russia's interest in using more territories to ensure
launchings in the most advantageous directions, but the results of
Kazakhstan's inquiry into the problem proved that providing many of the
territories Russia had asked is impossible because of economic activities
on these territories and a threat of worsening of the environmental
situation in Kazakhstan," Musabayev said.
Kazakh state bodies had been looking for a year into coordination of
an intergovernmental agreement on terms of providing new territories for
falling pieces of detachable parts of carrier rockets. The resolution
voiced by The Kazakh Space Agency is the result of this work, Musabayev
said.
Musabayev specified that coordination of a draft agreement,
envisaging allotment of new plots of land in the Kustanai and Aktyubinsk
regions Russia might use for this purpose, be being continued, but "the
coordination has not been complete because of new requirements made by
authorized bodies in accordance with Kazakhstan's legislation".
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