October 20, 2013 4:28:15 am
The US will use a Romanian air base on the Black Sea as a transit point for its troops leaving Afghanistan as it winds up operations at another base in Kyrgyzstan,the Pentagon said. The agreement on using the Mihail Kogalniceanu air base was reached at a meeting at the Pentagon Friday between US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel and his Romanian counterpart
Mircea Dusa. This air base will support logistics into and out of
Afghanistan,including personnel and cargo movement,Pentagon
spokesman George Little said. PTI
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