ARMENIA, UZBEKISTAN DELAYING SETTING UP RAPID REACTION FORCE – OFFICIAL
Interfax
June 3 2009
Russia
The positions currently taken by Armenia and Uzbekistan on a plan
by the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to set up a
"Collective Rapid Reaction Force" are causing the CSTO delay putting
the plan into practice, CSTO head Nikolai Bordyuzha said on Wednesday.
Armenia, for example, is insisting on a more specific minimum period
for getting the proposed force ready for action, Nikolai Bordyuzha
told reporters in Moscow.
"I am deeply convinced that, on June 14, immediately before the
session of the CSTO Council, we will return to this matter and produce
a definitive draft for the agreement on setting up the Collective Rapid
Reaction Force definitively ready for being signed by the presidents,"
he said.
The Russian defense minister’s spokesman told Interfax-AVN that Russia
is providing an airborne division and an assault brigade for the force.