Advertise On EU-Digest

Annual Advertising Rates

12/4/05

DefenseNews.com - Rice To Visit Romania, Sign U.S. Base Deal

DefenseNews.com

Rice To Visit Romania, Sign U.S. Base Deal

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will make a lightning visit to Bucharest on Dec. 6, where she will sign a deal to open U.S. military facilities in Romania, the foreign ministry announced Dec. 2. The deal is the first in Washington’s strategy to redeploy some 60,000 to 70,000 personnel from bases in Germany and South Korea to Eastern Europe.The locations of the new U.S. military facilities have not yet been disclosed but sources suggest that the Black Sea air bases of Mihail Kogalniceanu and Fetesti will be used. The U.S. Army previously used Mihail Kogalniceanu airport as a rear base during the Iraq war and it has been cited as the possible location of a secret CIA prison, though Romania has repeatedly denied any such operations on its soil.

No comments: