Romania congress approves US bases

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Source: Aljazeera

The Romanian parliament has overwhelmingly approved an agreement to let the US station up to 3,000 troops in the formerly communist country.

Members of parliament voted 257-1 in favour of the proposal, with 29 nationalists abstaining, to pass the 10-year agreement, on Wednesday.

Under the deal, US troops will be able to use four Romanian military bases in the eastern European nation.

The US is expected to take over the Mihail Kogalniceanu air base, near Constanta, later this year, though no exact date has been announced.


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Even as MPs debated the agreement, Romanian and US miltiary jets held exercises over Romania