Geneva. September 30th. INTERFAX - Russia's position on the unacceptability of the possible US use of Russian military bases in Central Asia has not changed, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday.
"This is not the first time I have drawn attention to the fact that American colleagues either wishful thinking, or hear in our signals only what they like to hear, or follow the path of information stuffing in the hope that after such stuffing there will be some kind of shift in our position," he told reporters in Geneva, commenting on relevant publications in the media.
"There is not the slightest change in our position regarding the unacceptability of the American military presence in any form on the territory of the Central Asian states. This is a definitively formulated firm position that does not contain the slightest element of flexibility. What the Americans have been repeatedly told about," Ryabkov stressed.
