KYRGYZSTAN ENDORSES RUSSIA'S INTENTION TO DELIVER PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKES ON TERRORISTS - KYRGYZ PRESIDENT

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VOLOKOLAMSK (Moscow region), November 14 (RIA Novosti). Kyrgyzstan endorses Russia's intention to deliver pre-emptive strikes on terrorists, Kyrgyz president Askar Akayev said on Sunday in the Russian town of Volokolamsk, Moscow region, speaking to WWII veterans.

"We endorse Russia's intention to deliver pre-emptive strikes on international terrorists," he said.

According to Akayev, to succeed in fighting terrorism, the antiterrorist front should cover all countries and continents.

"We share Russia's approach, to which the opening of the Russian military base in Kant and the establishment of the Collective Security Treaty Organization is ample evidence," he said.

"Russians need to know and understand that Kyrgyzstan is Russia's friend and forward base in the Central Asia," the Kyrgyz President underscored.

On Sunday Akayev laid a wreath to the Monument of the Twenty Eight Heroes near the station of Dubosekovo, village of Nelidovo near Moscow. He also laid a wreath to the bed of honor of the Twenty Eight Heroes and visited a museum dedicated to them, where he wrote an address in the Book of Honored Guests.

On November 16, 1941 near the station of Dubosekovo, 28 men of the 2nd Battalion, 1075th Rifle Regiment, 316th Guards Division, commanded by Junior Political Officer Vasily Klochkov, fought against 50 Nazi tanks and destroyed 18 of them in preventing the enemy from approaching Moscow. Division Commander Major General Ivan Panfilov had been the military commissioner of Kyrgyzstan, and the division was formed in Kazakhstan.

Most of the fighters were killed in the battle, and all 28 men were later decorated with the Hero of the Soviet Union Medal.

"I have long dreamt of visiting this historic place to see the Russian soil where our fellow countrymen had been lost," Akayev said, "Panfilov's fighters are remembered in Kyrgyzstan as well as in Russia."

The Kyrgyz President recalled that next year the CIS and the whole world would celebrate the 60th anniversary of Victory Day. "Parades and celebrations will be held all around on this holiday," Akayev said.

He also pointed out that in Russia and CIS few families could say they have lost no one in the war. Akayev himself lost his elder brother.

Moscow Region Governor Boris Gromov gave the Kyrgyz President a winter landscape painting as a present for his 60th birthday.

Earlier on Sunday Akayev had arrived in Moscow from St. Petersburg.

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