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ARMENIA PARTICIPATING MILITARY COOPERATION-2005 CIS EXERCISE
24.06.2005 07:11
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Anti-aircraft forces of Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan,
Russia and Tajikistan participated today in Military Cooperation-2005 CIS
exercise, Yerkir online reported. Military units of the CSTO member-states
took part in the maneuvers. Upon completion of the sitting of the CIS
Defense Ministers in Dushanbe Russian Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov noted
that the Council has ratified the initiative of military exercise, according
to which the exercise participants should settle issues of joint use of
national forces of air-raid defense in the Western European, Caucasian and
Central Asian regions of the CSTO. S. Ivanov also noted that the exercise
will be held within three phases, the first and third of which will be held
in Russia and the second – in Kazakhstan.