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    RF signs agrmnt with Abkhazia, S Ossetia on military coop

    15.09.2009,13.09



    MOSCOW, September 15 (Itar-Tass) -- According to an instruction of the
    Russian president, Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has
    signed agreements on cooperation in the military sphere with heads of
    the military departments of Abkhazia and South Ossetia Merab Kishmaria
    and Yuri Tanayev on Tuesday.
    `In accordance with the documents, Russia is given the possibility to
    build, use and improve the military infrastructure and military bases
    on the territory of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as well as create a
    joint grouping of troops both in the peace time and the war time,'
    press secretary of the Russian defence minister Alexei Kuznetsov said
    commenting on the signed agreements.
    According to the agreements, the headquarters of the Russian military
    base in Abkhazia will be dislocated in Gudauty, and in South Ossetia -
    - in Tskhinvali. The strength of the personnel of each of the military
    bases, as Kuznetsov said, will amount to 1,700 people.
    The agreements on military cooperation of Russian with Abkhazia and
    South Ossetia, which were singed in Moscow on Tuesday, in particular
    envisage:
    - coordination of issues of strengthening of military security and
    measures of trust;
    - coordination of actions on issues of ensuring security and control
    of the air space;
    - interaction in issues in charge of naval forces, on ensuring sea
    communications and security at sea (with Abkhazia);
    - training of servicemen at military educational establishments of the
    sides, joint training of military-scientific and
    scientific-pedagogical cadres;
    - sending of military specialists to ensure national military men and
    military-technical cadres;
    - interaction in the field of military intelligence;
    - interaction on issues of military communications, systems of
    automated direction;
    - organization of military interstate transportations;
    - meteorological, hydrological and topographic ensuring of troops, as
    well as rear and technical ensuring of
    years with automatic prolongation for another five-year periods.
    `At present, draft interstate agreements between the Russian
    Federation and the Republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia on joint
    Russian military bases on the territories of Abkhazia and South
    Ossetia are being worked out on the sidelines of the Russian Defence
    Ministry,' Alexei Kuznetsov said.
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