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    Xinhua, China
    Aug 24 2008



    Official: Russia-led defense bloc to hold regular drills


    www.chinaview.cn 2008-08-23 20:33:50

    MOSCOW, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Collective Security Treaty
    Organization (CSTO) is to hold large-scale military exercises every
    two years, including those in the hot spot region of Caucasus, a
    senior official said on Saturday.

    "The participants of a meeting of the CSTO defense ministers
    decided to hold large-scale exercises every two years. Thus, the next
    exercises will take place in 2010," Interfax news agency quoted CSTO
    Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov as saying.

    Those war games will be held with the situation in the region to
    be taken into consideration, including the Caucasus, he said.

    The CSTO defense ministers met on Thursday in the Armenian capital
    of Yerevan to discuss the military and political situation in the
    region, the military cooperation of the member states, as well as
    their foreign and defense policies.

    The Russia-led bloc has held four-stage military exercises in
    Russia and the Caucasus state of Armenia in July and August, involving
    about 4,000 troops from Armenia, Russia and Tajikistan. Military staff
    from the other CSTO member states also joined the exercises.

    The seven-member organization was renamed in October 2002 on the
    basis of the Collective Security Treaty, which was signed in Mary 1992
    within the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The
    current members of the CSTO include Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
    Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Russia and Uzbekistan.


    Editor: Bi Mingxin
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