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    KAZAKH DEFENCE MINISTER SAID TO PRAISE CIS AIR DEFENCE EXERCISES

    Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency
    7 Apr 04

    ALMATY

    The Kazakh defence minister, Army Gen Mukhtar Altynbayev, has praised
    the interaction and coordination between the forces of the CIS joint
    air defence system (of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
    Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine ) on ensuring security
    in the Commonwealth's airspace which were demonstrated at a joint
    exercise today.

    A press release circulated by the Kazakh Defence Ministry has
    said. The press release says that during the exercises the alert
    forces and the means of the CIS joint air defence system have drilled
    the tasks of combat alertness under the circumstances of the
    aggravation of situation in the regions of the (CIS) collective
    security.

    The press release says that Su-27, MiG-29, MiG-31 fighter jets, Su-25
    attack aircraft, Su-24 front-line bombers and other air technologies,
    command centres of the air defence systems of the CIS states,
    subdivisions and units of the air defence missile and radar troops,
    the troops of signals and logistics took part in the exercises.

    According to the press release, air patrols, detecting and
    intercepting an aggressor in the air, escorting and providing aid to
    aircraft that were suffering damage were carried out during the
    exercises.

    The distinctive feature of the exercises, the press release
    emphasizes, is that the forces and the means that are on combat alert
    and ensuring the security of the CIS countries' airspace took part in
    the exercises.

    According to the press service, troops from the Kazakh air defence
    forces, subdivisions from Karaganda, Taldykorgan, Balkhash and
    Zhetygen air bases and air defence missile and radar troops took part
    in the exercises.
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