BISHKEK. June 24 (Interfax-AVN) - Final arrangements for a CIS air base in Kyrgyzstan will be made after it has finalized the base deployment accord with Russia, general secretary of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Nikolai Bordyuzha said after talks with Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev in Bishkek on Tuesday.
"Final arrangements for a CIS air base in the town of Kant will be made after Russia and Kyrgyzstan have signed a base deployment agreement," he said.
According to him, shared use of the base by the Russian Air Force and the Defense Ministry of Kyrgyzstan would require only one blueprint of funding and logistics support, but its use by the Russian military alone envisions a different financial arrangement.
Bordyuzha said that a Russian military delegation is arriving in Bishkek on Tuesday to determine the core of the future accord.
Addressing the need to attach an aviation unit to the CIS contingent in Kant, Bordyuzha noted that in modern warfare any land unit requires air support.
As to the negotiations with the Kyrgyz leader, Bordhyuzha stressed that "the main point for me is to have the organization do real business so that its work will not be limited by drawing up documents and adopting decisions to be subsequently shelved. There has to be a real path toward integrative decision-making that will outline practical steps in all our organization's structures."
Concerning security in Central Asia, Bordyuzha noted that so far there is no reason to speak of factors of danger in the region as the situation is fairly stable.
Bordyuzha hopes that the alliance will not allow what happened in southern Kyrgyzstan in 1999 and 2000, when gangs penetrated into the republic's south. "It is for attaining such tasks that the air base is being created in Kant," he said.