Nato has agreed transit deals with Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan to move its equipment out of Afghanistan north through Central Asia and Russia. Photo: REUTERS
Nato Announces Deals To Exit Afghanistan Via Central Asia -- The Telegraph
Nato has agreed transit deals with Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan to move its equipment out of Afghanistan north through Central Asia and Russia.
The deals cement Central Asia's strategic importance to military planners and diplomats. It also means that Nato can avoid Pakistan, its previously preferred transit route.
Over the last few years, US relations with Pakistan have worsened forcing the Western military alliance into a diplomatic push in former Soviet Central Asia and ultimately into deals with governments criticised for human rights abuses.
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