Leader Offers U.S. the Use of Airspace
Times Staff and Wire Reports
President Islam Karimov said on state television that his government will open its airspace to U.S. and allied aircraft. Uzbekistan is on Afghanistan’s northern border.
Karimov said his government will “make its own contribution to the liquidation of camps and bases of terrorists in Afghanistan and is ready to make its airspace available for this purpose.”
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