U.S. Embassy in Bishkek appears in the latest Wikileaks scandal | Kloop in English

U.S. Embassy in Bishkek appears in the latest Wikileaks scandal | Kloop in English

A secret report on an interview with U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Tatiana Gfoeller, and Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yannanya regarding Manas airbase was amongst the many documents that the now infamous Wikileaks website published on the night of November 29.

The meeting referred to in the document was held on February 13, 2009, shortly after Kyrgyzstan announced the removal from its territory of Manas airbase, a facility staffed mostly by U.S troops.

From the content of the report it is known that Gfoeller met with the Chinese ambassador to ascertain whether or not there was any truth in rumours that his country had proposed Kyrgyzstan an aid package of U.S. $ 3 billion in exchange for closing the base.

Gfoeller said her information was based on “the Kyrgyz authorities.”

Ambassador Zhang, according to the content of the document, “ridiculed” this assumption, although as soon as Gfoeller asked, it was noted that he “lost the ability to speak in Russian.”

“Once he recovered the power of Russian speech, he inveighed against such a calumny, claiming claiming that
such an idea was impossible,” the document describes.

Zhang told the U.S. ambassador that such aid would be practically impossible for China.

“It would cost three dollars for each resident of China,” the ambassador is cited as saying in the report. “If our people would find out about that, there would be a revolution,” he continued