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    CSTO ARMIES TO STOP USING SOVIET WEAPONS, HARDWARE PAST 2020 - OFFICIAL

    Interfax News Agency
    Aug 25 2008
    Russia

    The countries comprising the Collective Security Treaty Organization
    (CSTO) will have no military hardware made in the Soviet era times
    after 2020, said Vladimir Poleshchuk, a deputy director of the Russian
    Federal Military- Technological Cooperation Service.

    "It would be naive to count on weapons and hardware built in the
    Soviet era times as the basis of the weapons possessed by the CSTO
    armies after 2020," Poleshchuk said. Such weapons and hardware would
    be modernized by 2020, but after this time they need to be replaced
    by modern weapons, he said.

    Taking this into account, the CSTO member-states need to start
    developing unified standards for weapons and military hardware already
    now, Poleshchuk said.

    The CSTO is comprised of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
    Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
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