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| Kyrgyz threat to close down crucial US base |
| 2010-06-19 |
| Kyrgyztan has threatened to close down a strategic US airbase if Britain refuses to hand over the son of the country's ousted president. Maxim Bakiyev, who was arrested at Farnborough airport on Sunday, has an arrest warrant against him from Interpol, on charges of corruption and misusing state funds. He has also been accused by the Kyrgyz interim government of provoking this week's outburst of brutal ethnic conflict in southern Kyrgyzstan. "England never gives up people who arrive on its territory. But since England and the US fight terrorism, and the arrangement with the airbase is one of the elements of that fight, then they must give over Maxim Bakiyev," said Azimbek Beknazarov, deputy leader of the provisional government in an interview with the Guardian newspaper. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |