Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Kyrgyzstani President Kurmanbek Bakiyev have signed a memorandum on further development and improvement of the bilateral legislative basis regulating the presence of Russian military units on the territory of Kyrgyzstan and on deployment of a supplementary Russian military contingent there, Itar-Tass reported. The memorandum says, among other things, the two countries find it reasonable to draft before November 1, 2009 a Russian-Kyrgyzstani agreement on the status of and terms for deployment of a combined Russian military base on the territory of Kyrgyzstan.
