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| Russia won't allow attacks from Central Asia |
| 2001-09-15 |
DESPITE CALLS from US President George Bush to Russian President Vladimir Putin, asking for full support in the wake of the suicide attacks, Russia is making it clear that it will not back an American invasion of Afghanistan from bases in the former Soviet Central Asia. Sergei Ivanov, the Russian Defence Minister, said: "I don't see any basis for even the hypothetical possibility of Nato military operations on the territory of central Asian nations that belong to the Commonwealth of Independent States." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |