Tajik defence minister to attend CIS security sitting in Moscow

Tajik defence minister to attend CIS security sitting in Moscow

Asia-Plus news agency
23 Nov 04

Dushanbe, 23 November: Tajik Defence Minister Sherali Khayrulloyev
will attend the next session of the Council of Defence Ministers of
the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) scheduled for 25
November in Moscow.

The ministers are to discuss issues relating to the current and
future development of the organization’s military component and
the improvement of the legal basis of the functioning of the [CIS]
Collective Rapid Deployment Force, the Tajik Defence Ministry press
centre has told Asia-Plus. The issue on training of military personnel
will be of no small importance. The council is also expected to
consider an agreement on the terms of deployment of the CSTO joint
staff in Russia and the organization of its work.

The CSTO includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia
and Tajikistan.