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    CSTO'S RAPID-REACTION FORCE TO HOLD EXERCISES IN LATE SUMMER

    RIA Novosti
    14:34 | 07/ 05/ 2009

    MOSCOW, May 7 (RIA Novosti) - The joint rapid-reaction forces of
    a post-Soviet regional security bloc will hold military exercises
    in August-September in Kazakhstan, a Russian first deputy foreign
    minister announced on Thursday.

    Andrei Denisov said the development of the Collective Security Treaty
    Organization's rapid-reaction force was a topic of discussion at
    an ongoing meeting of CSTO deputy foreign, defense, and economics
    ministers at the Russian Foreign Ministry.

    The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which comprises
    Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Uzbekistan and
    Tajikistan, agreed in early February to set up the rapid-reaction
    force.

    President Dmitry Medvedev earlier said that the force should be
    well-organized and equipped to counter a variety of threats.

    The Russian president also said the CSTO was open for cooperation
    with the United States in the fight against terrorism in Central Asia.

    The rapid-reaction force, which Medvedev has said "will be just as
    good as comparable NATO forces," will be used to repulse military
    aggression, conduct anti-terrorist operations, fight transnational
    crime and drug trafficking, and neutralize the effects of natural
    disasters.

    Moscow has stressed that collective forces will not interfere in the
    domestic conflicts of the bloc's member countries.
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