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2/18/09
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A senior official from US Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) has begun a five-day visit to Tajikistan, Russian media outlets are reporting.
Rear Admiral Mark Harnitchek, who heads the Strategy, Policy, Programs, and Logistics Directorate at TRANSCOM -- the deployment and distribution arm of the US Department of Defense -- was expected to discuss the delivery on non-military goods to Afghanistan through Tajikistan.
Harnitchek accompanied the head of US Central Command Gen. David Petraeus on his visits to Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan in January. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive].
Political analyst Arkady Dubnov, writing in Russian Vremya Novosti newspaper on February 18, wrote that Harnitchek’s task in Dushanbe was to arrange a "transit [corridor] to Afghanistan via a Tajik route."
Posted February 18, 2009 © Eurasianet
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