Kyrgyz Leaders Say U.S. Can Use Air Base http://www.ipsnews.org/news.asp?idnews=50970

Kyrgyzstan's new leaders sought to reassure Washington Thursday that it can continue to use the strategic Manas airbase near the capital Bishkek as a supply link for U.S. operations in Afghanistan.Roza Otunbayeva, the head of the interim government, told reporters in Bishkek that as far as the base's fate was concerned, "the status quo would remain".

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