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    DEFENSE MINISTER IVANOV TELLS PRESIDENT ABOUT CIS AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM

    17:26 | 31/ 08/ 2005

    SOCHI, August 31 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov
    briefed President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday about the prototype of a
    regional air defense system for the Commonwealth of Independent States
    (CIS).

    Ivanov said a single command center had been used first time ever
    during an exercise that had been held at the start of the week in
    Russia's southern Astrakhan region and had involved units from Russia,
    Belarus, Armenia and Tajikistan.

    "For the first time ever, we established a single command center, not
    one for each country, but a joint one," the minister said. "This is
    the prototype for the regional air defense system within the framework
    of the CIS."

    Ivanov also said that the system could be deployed anywhere in the CIS.

    This was not the first exercise to be held as a part of the combined
    air defense system, the minister said. Similar exercises were held
    in Siberia and Belarus and another exercise should be held this year
    with Kazakhstan.

    "Nevertheless, the main event for the CIS combined air defense system
    took place at Ashuluk firing range in the Astrakhan region," the
    minister said. He added that combat launches had been made. "There was
    no imitation whatsoever, and the targets were very difficult [to hit]."
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