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    Kazakh, Kyrgyz troops arrive in Tajikistan for joint CIS drills

    Avesta web site
    24 Mar 05

    Dushanbe, 24 March: A military subunit of the Kazakh armed forces
    arrived today in Tajikistan for participation in the joint command
    and staff exercises Rubezh-2005, the head of the [Tajik] Defence
    Ministry press service, Zarobiddin Sirojov, has told Avesta.

    He said a subunit of the Kyrgyz armed forces arrived [in Tajikistan]
    on 21 March.

    "Preparations for the joint tactical drills involving all the
    participants will now continue at the firing range," Sirojov said. He
    said that an airlift of the participants of the exercises from the
    Kazakh and Kyrgyz armed forces, which was planned with the aim of
    checking mobility in practice, ended today.

    The command and the HQ of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces in
    the Central Asian region will be set up on Tajik territory.

    [Tajikistan will host five-day CSTO (Collective Security Treaty
    Organization; members are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
    Tajikistan and Russia) military exercises, which will start in
    early-April]
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