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GEORGIA QUITS POST-SOVIET AIR DEFENSE TREATY
Xinhua
www.chinaview.cn
May 14 2008
China
MOSCOW, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Georgia Wednesday formally withdrew from
an air defense treaty signed by post-Soviet states, Interfax news
agency quoted a statement of the Georgian Foreign Ministry assaying.
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Treaty on Cooperation in
Air Defense, inked in 1995 by Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine,
was designed to create a joint air-defense system.
Georgia informed Russia earlier this month about its decision to
withdraw from the pact, amid tensions between Tbilisi and Moscow.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Xinhua
www.chinaview.cn
May 14 2008
China
MOSCOW, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Georgia Wednesday formally withdrew from
an air defense treaty signed by post-Soviet states, Interfax news
agency quoted a statement of the Georgian Foreign Ministry assaying.
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Treaty on Cooperation in
Air Defense, inked in 1995 by Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine,
was designed to create a joint air-defense system.
Georgia informed Russia earlier this month about its decision to
withdraw from the pact, amid tensions between Tbilisi and Moscow.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress