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Article: Russia: no country can challenge Uzbek decision to end US military presence
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- September 23, 2005
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Russia: no country can challenge Uzbek decision to end US military
presence
ALMA-ATA, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Russian Defense Minister Sergei
Ivanov said Thursday that Uzbekistan's decision to end the US
military presence was a decision made by a sovereign country and
other countries have no right to interfere.
During a visit to the eastern Uzbek city of Samarkand, Ivanov told
reporters that Uzbekistan's decision to close a US military base on
its territory was "a decision made by a sovereign country, "
according to press reports reaching here from the Uzbek capital of
Tashkent.