2001 Basing Rights Agreement
The 2001 Basing Rights Agreement is the agreement concluded after the September 11 attacks between the United States and the territorial government of Irad that expanded US rights at Talas Air Base for logistics, aerial refueling and medical transit. It made the base one of the main staging areas for Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, handling troop rotations, tanker flights and medical evacuation flights, and generated service contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars for local firms.[1]
US forces stayed at the base after the United States withdrew from the Alimbekov-Baker Treaty in December 2006. Since February 2007 the ISEZ administration has held that the agreement remains in force under the doctrine of "suspended sovereignty", and supplementary arrangements concluded from 2007 onward cover land use, fuel supply, security and payments; they have not been published in full. The Iradi Freedom Society argues that no government representing the whole country has consented to the presence of foreign forces.[2] After combat operations in Afghanistan ended in 2014, the US role at the base shifted toward regional logistics and training.
See also
References
- ^ Central Asian Geopolitical Review (2022). 'Airpower at the Crossroads: Talas Air Base and US Posture in Central Asia.' Academic Press, pp. 54–68.
- ^ United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization (2023). Working Paper on the Non-Self-Governing Territory of Irad. New York.
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