Thursday, December 18, 2008

'U.S. Seeks New Bases'

17 December 2008

Moscow-General Nikolai Makarov, chief of the General Staff, warned that Moscow felt threatened by U.S. policy in Central Asia and claimed that Washington was attempting to establish new military bases there, Interfax reported Tuesday.

"According to our information, it [the U.S.] is planning to establish military bases in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan," Makarov said. He did not elaborate.

"That's news to me. I don't think that's true," U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza said in a telephone interview Tuesday.

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