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RUSSIA BLAMES UZBEKISTAN, ARMENIA FOR DELAY ON RAPID-RESPONSE FORCES
ITAR-TASS
June 3 2009
Russia
Moscow, 3 June: Uzbekistan's and Armenia's special positions are
causing a delay in the execution of the agreement on the creation of
the Collective Rapid-Response Forces [KSOR] of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization [CSTO], the CSTO's Secretary-General Nikolay
Bordyuzha said today after a meeting of the CSTO defence ministers who
studied package of documents which form the legal basis for the KSOR.
"There are several disagreements between six CSTO member states and
Uzbekistan on the functioning of the KSOR," Bordyuzha said.
"Armenia is insisting on more concrete dates for the forces to be
ready," he said.
However, Bordyuzha said: "I am firmly convinced that on 14 June,
directly before the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council,
we will come back to this question and finally prepare the agreement
on the formation of KSOR to be signed by the presidents."
The press secretary of the Russian Defence Ministry, Aleksey Kuznetsov,
told ITAR-TASS today that Russia "is providing an airborne division
and an assault brigade for the force".
"The KSOR is intended to ensure collective security of the CSTO
member states. In addition, they will fight international terrorism,
illegal trafficking of weapons and drugs and trans-border crime,"
Kuznetsov said.
"Decisions to use the KSOR will be made on the basis of the current
situation for every individual case," he said.
Kuzentsov also said that the Russian Defence Ministry has started
working on the formation of single standards in equipping KSOR military
contingents. In view of this, proposals will soon be prepared on
general approaches to ensure operational compatibility of the KSOR, for
instance, on their equipment with weapons, compatible communications,
singe uniform, insignia, etc.
"Today we showed our partners examples of field uniform made in
Russia. We suggested that they could supply with them KSOR military
contingents," Kuznetsov said. [passage omitted]
The president's aide Sergey Prikhodko explained earlier that the
KSOR, unlike the Collective Rapid-Reaction Forces [KSBR], will be
permanently deployed on Russia and other countries will sent their
forces to Russia. It is expected that the core of the new subsystem
will be Russian military formations capable of resolving new tasks -
the 98th Guard Airborne Division and the 31st Guard Assault Brigade,
which could be later strengthened with forces from the Emergencies
Ministry and probably from the Interior Misitry.
ITAR-TASS
June 3 2009
Russia
Moscow, 3 June: Uzbekistan's and Armenia's special positions are
causing a delay in the execution of the agreement on the creation of
the Collective Rapid-Response Forces [KSOR] of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization [CSTO], the CSTO's Secretary-General Nikolay
Bordyuzha said today after a meeting of the CSTO defence ministers who
studied package of documents which form the legal basis for the KSOR.
"There are several disagreements between six CSTO member states and
Uzbekistan on the functioning of the KSOR," Bordyuzha said.
"Armenia is insisting on more concrete dates for the forces to be
ready," he said.
However, Bordyuzha said: "I am firmly convinced that on 14 June,
directly before the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council,
we will come back to this question and finally prepare the agreement
on the formation of KSOR to be signed by the presidents."
The press secretary of the Russian Defence Ministry, Aleksey Kuznetsov,
told ITAR-TASS today that Russia "is providing an airborne division
and an assault brigade for the force".
"The KSOR is intended to ensure collective security of the CSTO
member states. In addition, they will fight international terrorism,
illegal trafficking of weapons and drugs and trans-border crime,"
Kuznetsov said.
"Decisions to use the KSOR will be made on the basis of the current
situation for every individual case," he said.
Kuzentsov also said that the Russian Defence Ministry has started
working on the formation of single standards in equipping KSOR military
contingents. In view of this, proposals will soon be prepared on
general approaches to ensure operational compatibility of the KSOR, for
instance, on their equipment with weapons, compatible communications,
singe uniform, insignia, etc.
"Today we showed our partners examples of field uniform made in
Russia. We suggested that they could supply with them KSOR military
contingents," Kuznetsov said. [passage omitted]
The president's aide Sergey Prikhodko explained earlier that the
KSOR, unlike the Collective Rapid-Reaction Forces [KSBR], will be
permanently deployed on Russia and other countries will sent their
forces to Russia. It is expected that the core of the new subsystem
will be Russian military formations capable of resolving new tasks -
the 98th Guard Airborne Division and the 31st Guard Assault Brigade,
which could be later strengthened with forces from the Emergencies
Ministry and probably from the Interior Misitry.