Interfax
April 28 2004
CIS Defense Ministers Council to hold next session in Armenia
Moscow. April 28 (Interfax-AVN) – The CIS Council of Defense
Ministers will hold its next session in the capital of Armenia on May
21, Colonel Alexander Nekrasov, chief of the council’s secretariat,
said on Wednesday.
“The next session of the CIS Defense Ministers Council, to be held in
Yerevan on May 21 under the chairmanship of Russian Defense Minister
Sergei Ivanov, will address more than 20 issues related to further
CIS integration in the military sphere,” Nekrasov told
Interfax-Military News Agency.
The session will focus on military and military-technical cooperation
in the CIS framework. “In particular, participants in the session
will consider the draft purpose-oriented program of comprehensive
counteraction of CIS armed forces to aerial assault forces and
assets, as well as implementation of the CIS Military- Technical
Cooperation Program,” the colonel stressed.
According to him, reports at the session will be delivered by Ivanov,
Colonel General Alexei Moskovsky, Russia’s chief of armament and
deputy defense minister, Army General Vladimir Mikhailov, Russian Air
Force commander-in-chief, Army General Vladimir Yakovlev, chief of
the CIS Military Cooperation Coordination Headquarters, and other
military leaders.