ASTANA. April 4 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry has discarded as an insinuation reports that Astana has allegedly agreed to make its military installations available to foreign countries should a military operation be launched against Iran.
"Irresponsible media statements and insinuations, claiming that Kazakhstan's territory and air space could be used by foreign countries for military purposes against third countries are absolutely unfounded," Foreign Ministry spokesman Altai Abibullayev said, according to a statement released by the Kazakh Foreign Ministry on Wednesday.
"All reports claiming that Kazakhstan has agreed to make its territory available for deploying foreign military installations in the event of a military operation against Iran are untrue," he said.
"As a responsible party in international relations and leader in nuclear disarmament, Kazakhstan has been consistently advocating exclusively peaceful and diplomatic ways of settling the situation surrounding Iran's nuclear program and it will continue doing so," Abibullayev said.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in an interview with ABC television that the U.S. Department of State has no information suggesting that Israel has allegedly secured Kazakhstan's consent to make its military facilities available in the event of a military operation against Iran.
She also said that even if such information were available she would not comment on it.