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2010-01-22 09:33:00
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KAZAKHSTAN: MFA PUBLICLY DENIES POLITICAL PROBLEMS WITH
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SUBJECT: KAZAKHSTAN: MFA PUBLICLY DENIES POLITICAL PROBLEMS WITH
EXPANDED OVERFLIGHT
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SUBJECT: KAZAKHSTAN: MFA PUBLICLY DENIES POLITICAL PROBLEMS WITH
EXPANDED OVERFLIGHT
1. (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet.
2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In response to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov's
statement to "Radio Free Europe" that Kazakhstan is delaying full
implementation of the U.S.-Russia Transit Agreement, Kazakhstan's
Foreign Ministry made public today the U.S. request to add an
additional route to the existing overflight agreement.
Interfax-Kazakhstan news wire printed comments by the MFA's
spokesman, who said Kazakhstan has no political problem with the
proposal and is simply working out the "technical details" of the
proposal and preparing it for parliament's review. Full text of the
article is below. END SUMMARY.
3. (SBU) Begin full text of article.
Kazakhstan to provide an additional air corridor for U.S. to
transport cargoes to Afghanistan
Astana. January 21. Interfax-Kazakhstan -- The Kazakh Ministry of
Foreign Affairs is developing an international agreement to allow
the U.S. to transport military cargoes to Afghanistan through an
additional air corridor of Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan has been supporting the Operation Enduring Freedom from
the very beginning and opened an air corridor back in 2001 for U.S.
cargo transportation to Afghanistan through Kazakhstan, Askar
Abdrakhmanov, the official representative of the Kazakh Ministry for
Foreign Affairs, told Interfax-Kazakhstan.
"Now the talks are about Kazakhstan to provide an additional air
corridor that will run from Russia to Afghanistan. The U.S. sent us
a request last November asking to open this corridor," Mr.
Abdrakhmanov said.
Earlier the Russian foreign affairs minister, Sergei Lavrov, said
that the U.S. could not transport their cargoes to Afghanistan as
some technical issues had not been resolved with the Central Asian
countries, Kazakhstan among them.
"At the moment the Kazakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the
concerned governmental agencies are drafting an international
agreement which, when signed by the American side, will have to be
ratified by the Kazakh parliament. Cargo transit through the
additional air corridor will become possible after the mentioned
procedures are completed," Mr. Abdrakhmanov explained.
According to him, the U.S. initiated the same talks with Russia much
earlier than with Kazakhstan and, consequently, the talks were
finished earlier too.
"There are no political aspects involved here. It is a purely
technical issue as the Russian foreign minister said before," Mr.
Abdrakhmanov stressed.
Russia and the U.S. signed the agreement on military transit through
Russia to Afghanistan in Moscow last year.
HOAGLAND
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN, S/SRAP, EUR/RUS, P/M
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL MARR RS AF KZ
SUBJECT: KAZAKHSTAN: MFA PUBLICLY DENIES POLITICAL PROBLEMS WITH
EXPANDED OVERFLIGHT
1. (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet.
2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In response to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov's
statement to "Radio Free Europe" that Kazakhstan is delaying full
implementation of the U.S.-Russia Transit Agreement, Kazakhstan's
Foreign Ministry made public today the U.S. request to add an
additional route to the existing overflight agreement.
Interfax-Kazakhstan news wire printed comments by the MFA's
spokesman, who said Kazakhstan has no political problem with the
proposal and is simply working out the "technical details" of the
proposal and preparing it for parliament's review. Full text of the
article is below. END SUMMARY.
3. (SBU) Begin full text of article.
Kazakhstan to provide an additional air corridor for U.S. to
transport cargoes to Afghanistan
Astana. January 21. Interfax-Kazakhstan -- The Kazakh Ministry of
Foreign Affairs is developing an international agreement to allow
the U.S. to transport military cargoes to Afghanistan through an
additional air corridor of Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan has been supporting the Operation Enduring Freedom from
the very beginning and opened an air corridor back in 2001 for U.S.
cargo transportation to Afghanistan through Kazakhstan, Askar
Abdrakhmanov, the official representative of the Kazakh Ministry for
Foreign Affairs, told Interfax-Kazakhstan.
"Now the talks are about Kazakhstan to provide an additional air
corridor that will run from Russia to Afghanistan. The U.S. sent us
a request last November asking to open this corridor," Mr.
Abdrakhmanov said.
Earlier the Russian foreign affairs minister, Sergei Lavrov, said
that the U.S. could not transport their cargoes to Afghanistan as
some technical issues had not been resolved with the Central Asian
countries, Kazakhstan among them.
"At the moment the Kazakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the
concerned governmental agencies are drafting an international
agreement which, when signed by the American side, will have to be
ratified by the Kazakh parliament. Cargo transit through the
additional air corridor will become possible after the mentioned
procedures are completed," Mr. Abdrakhmanov explained.
According to him, the U.S. initiated the same talks with Russia much
earlier than with Kazakhstan and, consequently, the talks were
finished earlier too.
"There are no political aspects involved here. It is a purely
technical issue as the Russian foreign minister said before," Mr.
Abdrakhmanov stressed.
Russia and the U.S. signed the agreement on military transit through
Russia to Afghanistan in Moscow last year.
HOAGLAND