Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland arrived in Moscow on Monday for a three-day trip on behalf of the U.S. State Department.
presence in former Soviet Central Asian nations to a visiting senior U.S. diplomat on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported.
Ryabkov told Interfax news agency that"we strongly reaffirmed the unacceptability to Russia of any form of U.S. military presence in Central Asian countries." U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland leaves the Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters after her meeting with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov in Moscow on October 12, 2021, when Russia reaffirmed its opposition to any U.S. military presence in former Soviet Central Asian nations.
But Russia, which has maintained close political, economic, security and military ties with the Central Asian countries, has bristled at any such U.S. presence.
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