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Kyrgyzstan ratifies accord on military facilities
Interfax-AVN military news agency website
11 Aug 05
Moscow, 11 August: Kyrgyzstan has ratified an agreement on setting up,
building, maintaining and jointly using military infrastructure
facilities in member countries of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization (CSTO), the organization's Deputy Secretary General
Valeriy Semerikov told Interfax-Military News Agency today.
"The Kyrgyz president has signed the law on ratification of the CSTO
agreement on setting up, building and jointly using military
infrastructure facilities. Thus, Kyrgyzstan is the fourth CSTO member
nation to complete the ratification procedure," Semerikov said.
The agreement was signed in Astana on 18 June 2004 by the leaders of
Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan, he
recalled.
"In accordance with the text of the agreement, it takes effect on the
day the depository receives the fourth written notification on the
document's ratification by a member state. After the document is
ratified by Kyrgyzstan, it has effectively come into force," he said.
The agreement outlines the order of setting up, developing,
maintaining and using military infrastructure facilities in CSTO
member nations by coalition (regional) groups of forces both in
peacetime and wartime.
The document sets obligations for the parties in case they use
military infrastructure facilities jointly.
In particular, the parties are to work out and submit to the
Collective Security Council for approval the list of military
infrastructure facilities intended for joint use by coalition groups
of forces, and also to supply each other with specifications of
infrastructure facilities and share information on them.
In addition, the document sets the order of funding provision for
accommodation of the territory, and the order of joint use of military
infrastructure facilities in command post and field exercises.
Earlier, Armenia, Belarus and Kazakhstan ratified the accord.
Interfax-AVN military news agency website
11 Aug 05
Moscow, 11 August: Kyrgyzstan has ratified an agreement on setting up,
building, maintaining and jointly using military infrastructure
facilities in member countries of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization (CSTO), the organization's Deputy Secretary General
Valeriy Semerikov told Interfax-Military News Agency today.
"The Kyrgyz president has signed the law on ratification of the CSTO
agreement on setting up, building and jointly using military
infrastructure facilities. Thus, Kyrgyzstan is the fourth CSTO member
nation to complete the ratification procedure," Semerikov said.
The agreement was signed in Astana on 18 June 2004 by the leaders of
Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan, he
recalled.
"In accordance with the text of the agreement, it takes effect on the
day the depository receives the fourth written notification on the
document's ratification by a member state. After the document is
ratified by Kyrgyzstan, it has effectively come into force," he said.
The agreement outlines the order of setting up, developing,
maintaining and using military infrastructure facilities in CSTO
member nations by coalition (regional) groups of forces both in
peacetime and wartime.
The document sets obligations for the parties in case they use
military infrastructure facilities jointly.
In particular, the parties are to work out and submit to the
Collective Security Council for approval the list of military
infrastructure facilities intended for joint use by coalition groups
of forces, and also to supply each other with specifications of
infrastructure facilities and share information on them.
In addition, the document sets the order of funding provision for
accommodation of the territory, and the order of joint use of military
infrastructure facilities in command post and field exercises.
Earlier, Armenia, Belarus and Kazakhstan ratified the accord.