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Wikileaks Cable: Kyrgyzstan's Former President Can Be Bought For A Trip To Paris, Apparently

Brian Fung | September 14, 2011, 5:59AM

The United States may have paid Kyrgyzstan a pretty penny for the right to keep its Afghan supply lines open, but when it comes to France, the Kyrgyz government was little more than a cheap date.

Kyrgyz officials rebuffed French pleas for access to the country's Manas air base until the French promised to arrange a trip to Paris for then-Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev and an upgrade to the two nations' political relationship, according to a 2009 confidential U.S. diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks.

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