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    Russia to allow US weapon shipments to Afghanistan

    Russia to allow US weapon shipments to Afghanistan

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    MOSCOW (AP) — A Kremlin aide says Russia will allow the U.S. to ship weapons across its territory to Afghanistan.

    President Dmitry Medvedev's foreign policy adviser Sergei Prikhodko said Medvedev and President Barack Obama are expected to sign a deal on the issue during their summit next week in Moscow.

    Russia has been allowing the U.S. to ship non-lethal goods across its territory to help operations in Afghanistan. Prikhodko said the expected deal would enable the U.S. to ship lethal cargoes and would include shipments by air and land.

    It is a significant goodwill gesture from the Kremlin before the summit, which both nations hope will put long-troubled ties back on track.

    THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

    MOSCOW (AP) — President Barack Obama was wrong to suggest Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin remains partially mired in a Cold War mindset and is sure to change his opinion when they meet next week in Moscow, Putin's spokesman said Friday.

    Obama said in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press that Putin needs to understand "that the old Cold War approaches to U.S.-Russian relations is outdated, that it's time to move forward in a different direction."

    Obama said he believes Russian President Dmitry Medvedev "understands that," but Putin "has one foot in the old ways of doing business and one foot in the new."

    Obama makes his first trip as U.S. president to Russia for talks on Monday and Tuesday.

    His remarks suggested that he sees Putin as a potential obstacle to improving ties after years of increasing acrimony. Putin was a frequent critic of the U.S. during his eight years as Russia's president, before he became prime minister last year.

    Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Obama was wrong about the premier. "Such a point of view has nothing to do with a true understanding of Putin," he told AP, and suggested the reason for Obama's view was simply that he "has not yet spoken with Putin — they are not acquainted."

    "By all appearances he does not have full information about (Putin's) views," Peskov said, adding that Obama's planned breakfast meeting with Putin on Tuesday should clear the air.

    "I am convinced that after this meeting, the president (Obama) will change his point of view about (Putin)," he said.

    Putin is still widely seen as more powerful than Medvedev, who was elected in March 2008 after Putin tapped him as his favored successor. Medvedev has used a softer tone than Putin and has spoken of the need to improve Russia's democracy and its justice system, raising U.S. hopes for a shift from the tight Kremlin control of the Putin era.

    In the AP interview, Obama said "Putin still has a lot of sway in Russia," and that meeting with him as well as with the president "ensures that he and Medvedev are hearing the same things and seeing the same things so that they can move in concert in cooperating with us on some critical issues."

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    Re: Russia to allow US weapon shipments to Afghanistan


    William Burns speaks at a press conference in Bishkek.


    US says Kyrgyzstan base deal will boost security

    Sunday, July 12, 2009

    BISHKEK - The Associated Press

    A new agreement allowing the U.S. to maintain its air base in Kyrgyzstan for Afghan operations would help to ensure stability across Central Asia, a top American diplomat said Sunday.

    Several months after ordering U.S. forces to leave the Manas base by mid-August, Kyrgyzstan last month agreed to a deal that will let the U.S. continue to use the important support facility for the war in Afghanistan.

    The new transit center agreement will help "ensure that violent extremism and instability doesn't spill over into other parts of the region," William Burns, the U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, told reporters in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek.

    Under the new one-year lease approved by President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the air base at Kyrgyzstan's main airport will be designated as a transit center and the rent increased to $60 million a year, from $17 million.

    The facility will be used for the logistical support of operations in Afghanistan and "to help ensure the efficient movement of personnel back and forth between Afghanistan and our coalition partner countries," Burns said.

    The lease is renewable, but Burns would not say how long the U.S. might want to stay. "We're very pleased with the new transit center agreement and we're not looking to get ahead of ourselves at this point," he said.

    The U.S. is also starting new programs to strengthen cooperation with Kyrgyzstan against terrorism and the narcotics trade, Burns said.

    His talks followed a visit by top Russian officials last week, which prompted speculation that Russia is seeking or has secured use of a second air base in southern Kyrgyzstan, in addition to its existing Kant base near Bishkek.

    Russia has been wary of U.S. activity in the former Soviet republic, and the February order to evict U.S. forces from Manas was widely seen as influenced by Moscow.

    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev hinted in remarks Friday that Moscow may be seeking to increase its own military presence in Kyrgyzstan, though he said nothing concrete about the matter. Kyrgyz officials have not commented.

    "Any such decision is obviously the sovereign right of the government of Kyrgyzstan," Burns said. "Our view is that any step that strengthens the sovereignty, independence and security of Kyrgyzstan is a sensible one."

    Before a July 23 presidential election in which the incumbent Bakiyev is the clear front-runner, Burns said that, "fair and credible elections are very important for the future of Kyrgyzstan" and are "an important priority for the United States."

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      Armenia to send forces to Afghanistan this year

      Updated Tue. Jul. 21 2009 4:22 PM ET

      YEREVAN, Armenia -- Armenia's defence minister says the former Soviet republic will send forces to Afghanistan by the end of the year.

      Seyran Oganian said Tuesday that Armenia is discussing details of the deployment with Germany.

      He did not say how many servicemen would be sent to contribute to NATO and U.S. operations.

      Officials have said Armenia would likely send munitions experts and communications officers.

      Armenia had nearly 50 military personnel in Iraq but withdrew its contingent earlier this year.

      Oganian says some Armenians who fought in the Soviet Union's unsuccessful 1980s war in Afghanistan want to return as part of the new force.

      http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090721/Armenia_Afghan_090721/20090721?hub=World
      Azerbaboon: 9.000 Google hits and counting!

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        Armenia to send forces to Afghanistan this year

        Updated Tue. Jul. 21 2009 4:22 PM ET

        YEREVAN, Armenia -- Armenia's defence minister says the former Soviet republic will send forces to Afghanistan by the end of the year.

        Seyran Oganian said Tuesday that Armenia is discussing details of the deployment with Germany.

        He did not say how many servicemen would be sent to contribute to NATO and U.S. operations.

        Officials have said Armenia would likely send munitions experts and communications officers.

        Armenia had nearly 50 military personnel in Iraq but withdrew its contingent earlier this year.

        Oganian says some Armenians who fought in the Soviet Union's unsuccessful 1980s war in Afghanistan want to return as part of the new force.

        http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...0721?hub=World
        Yeah well we support Nato and the U.S. only for the U.S. to turn around and support the belligerent turkey who continues to deny the Genocide then for them to push Armenia to open the borders and let turkey fully take advantage of us by making us sign the disgraceful March 22, 2009 agreement which is not Armenia's or Artsakh's interest whatsoever. Then they want us to give away the surrounding Lachin lands surrounding Artsakh and to bring back the "azeri" tatars to Artsakh to pollute and take over both Armenia's and Artsakh's sovereignty. All the U.S. and Nato are doing is working against our Armenia and our Artsakh. All this for the benefit of belligerent turkey and belligerent fake "azerbaijan".
        Last edited by Anoush; 07-21-2009, 05:29 PM.

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          Re: Russia to allow US weapon shipments to Afghanistan

          Obama Scrapping Missile Defense Shield

          By AP / KAREL JANICEK and WILLIAM J. KOLE

          Thursday, Sep. 17, 2009

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            Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus
            Stoyan Nenov / Reutera


            Obama Scrapping Missile Defense Shield

            By AP / KAREL JANICEK and WILLIAM J. KOLE

            Thursday, Sep. 17, 2009

            (PRAGUE) — The Czech prime minister says President Barack Obama has told him that the U.S. is abandoning plans to put a missile shield in the Czech Republic and Poland.

            Czech Premier Jan Fischer told reporters in Prague on Thursday that Obama phoned him to say that Washington has decided to scrap the plan that had deeply angered Russia.

            Fischer says Obama confirmed that Washington no longer intends to put 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar system in the Czech Republic.

            The Bush administration had said the missile shield was a strategic way to counter a threat from Iran or another rogue state in the Middle East. But Russia was deeply angered by the prospect of having U.S. interceptor rockets in countries so close to its territory.

            Polish officials said they had no information on whether Obama also phoned that country's top leaders.

            There have been signs that Obama's administration is preparing to shelve many of the components of the missile shield proposed by the Bush administration, which called for 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar system in the Czech Republic.

            The Bush administration had said the missile shield was a strategic way to counter a threat from Iran or another rogue state in the Middle East, but Russia was deeply angered by the prospect of having U.S. interceptor rockets in countries so close to its territory.

            Obama took office undecided about whether to continue to press for the European system and said he would study it. His administration never sounded enthusiastic about it, and European allies have been preparing for an announcement that the White House would not complete the shield as designed.

            "It is most probable that the U.S. administration will unfortunately scrap the plan altogether," said Jaroslaw Gowin, a lawmaker with Poland's ruling Civic Platform party. "But maybe the U.S. will offer us an alternative."

            Alexei Arbatov, head of the Russian Academy of Science's Center for International Security, told a Moscow radio station Thursday that the U.S. was giving in on missile defense to get more cooperation from Russia on Iran.

            "The United States is reckoning that by rejecting the missile-defense system or putting it off to the far future, Russia will be inclined together with the United States to take a harder line on sanctions against Iran," he said.

            The Czech government had stood behind the planned radar system despite fierce opposition from the public, which has staged numerous protests.

            Critics fear the Czech Republic would be targeted by terrorists if it agreed to host the radar system, which was planned for the Brdy military installation 90 kilometers (55 miles) southwest of Prague, the capital.

            In Washington, Defense Secretary Robert Gates scheduled a news conference Thursday with a top military leader, Marine Gen. James Cartwright, who has been a point man on the technical challenge of arraying missiles and interceptors to defend against long-range missiles.

            Two military officials said the news conference would concern the missile defense plans.

            A decision to scrap the plan would have future consequences for U.S. relations with eastern Europe.

            Jan Vidim, a lawmaker with Czech Republic's conservative Civic Democratic Party — which supported the missile defense plan — said it's "hard to imagine how unfair" it would be for Obama to cancel at this stage.

            "If the administration approaches us in the future with any request, I would be strongly against it," he said.

            Kole reported from Vienna. AP Writer Monika Scislowska in Warsaw, Anne Gearan and Desmond Butler in Washington and Jim Heintz in Moscow contributed to this story.

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              Re: Russia to allow US weapon shipments to Afghanistan

              Another win for Russia.
              Hayastan or Bust.

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                Re: Russia to allow US weapon shipments to Afghanistan

                I thought they were just replacing it with another air defense system for Europe. It's funny, the U.S. claims the defense is against an attack from Iran and Europe claims it's for protection from Russia. Why doesn't anyone want to attack Canada... we've got gold, diamond and oil. Oh yeah, we already ask how high when Britain says jump.
                "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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