Atambayev mistakenly stated that Russia did not pay rent in Kant base
Almazbek Atambayev, the head of Kyrgyzstan, mistakenly stated that Russia has debts for the military base in Kant. In fact, he spoke of two other military facilities located in Kyrgyzstan. According to sources in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Atambayev “confused everything”.
There are 5 Russian military facilities in this country: the 954th Koysary military base in Karakol on Lake Issyk-Kul, the 338th naval communications center fleet (in the village of Kara-Balta, Chui oblast), the 999th air base in Kant, as well as two military facilities that are part of the Ministry of Defense's automated seismic monitoring system: radio-seismic laboratory No. 17, located in Mailuu-Suu, Jalal-Abad Region, and seismic station No. 1, located in Ichke-Suu, Issyk-Kul region.
At the end of last year, Atambayev stated that for four years the Russian Federation had not paid rent for the territories where military facilities are located. At the end of February of this year, he clarified, saying that the Russian side is not paying for the rent of its military base in Kant.
According to a source in the government of Kyrgyzstan, speaking of the debt of the Ministry of Defense of Russia for military facilities, Atambayev meant a test base of anti-submarine weapons and a long-distance communications center. The total area of the objects that Russia leases is 863 ha and part of the Issyk-Kul lake water area is added here. Rental properties - 4,5 mil. dollars a year. Debt has been accumulating since 2008, and today it is around 15 mil. dollars.
Sources in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense said that it seems that the President of Kyrgyzstan does not have information on the bilateral agreement “On the status and conditions of stay of the Russian aviation bases on the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic. ”
The same sources in the Russian ministries agreed that such debt to the Kyrgyz side exists, but this debt concerns the test base in Karakol, the 338 communication center in the village of Spartak, as well as the autonomous seismic point in Mailuu-Suu. For the fact that the Russian Ministry of Defense uses Kyrgyz facilities, it was supposed to provide the Armed Forces of Kyrgyzstan with military equipment.
According to a source in the Russian military department, from 2008 to 2009 years, Russia did not supply weapons and military equipment to Kyrgyzstan due to the fact that the internal political situation had worsened there at that time.
After a coup d'état took place in the spring of 2010 in this country, bloody interethnic clashes between Kyrgyz and citizens of other nationalities living in the republic began in Kyrgyzstan. Recall that during the Kyrgyz-Uzbek conflict that erupted in the south of the country in the summer of 2010, about 500 people died, thousands were injured, about half a million Kyrgyz citizens became refugees.
An employee of the Kyrgyz government noted that, despite the fact that the Russian side owes nothing to the Kant air base, however, Bishkek has a number of complaints to the Russian Federation concerning this particular base.
According to him, the base was to carry out the training of flight personnel for the Air Force, but such training was not conducted. Among the commitments was the repair of four L-39 training aircraft transferred by the Kyrgyz side to this base, but this was also not carried out.
Last Saturday, an official source in the Kremlin said that the Russian Federation was ready to pay for the rent of all military facilities in Kyrgyzstan in the amount of 15 million in the very near future.
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