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COLLECTIVE DEFENSE: RUSSIA PREPARES ITSELF FOR CONFLICTS IN POST-SOVIET ZONE
WPS Agency
October 9, 2012 Tuesday
Russia
COLLECTIVE DEFENSE
by : Vladimir Mukhin
Source: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, No 209, October 9, 2012, p. 1
RUSSIA PREPARES ITSELF FOR CONFLICTS IN THE POST-SOVIET ZONE; Countries
of the CIS Collective Security Treaty Organization run join exercises.
Exercises Clear Sky'2012 and Indestructible Brotherhood'2012 of the
CIS Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) were organized
on the territories of Russia and Kazakhstan. Official sources call
the exercises planned in advance and arranged to ensure security of
the countries that comprise the CSTO - Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
If the legends of the exercises in question are any indication,
CSTO troops might be committed to battle in the near future - say,
in Nagorno-Karabakh in the Caucasus and somewhere in the Central
Asian region.
President of Armenia Serj Sargsjan recently commented on frequent
incidents on the border with Azerbaijan. In fact, Sargsjan did not even
rule out the possibility of another a new war over Nagorno-Karabakh. In
Central Asia, the matter comes down to water issues, according to
Uzbek leader Islam Karimov. Uzbekistan suspended its membership in
the CSTO this summer and vitalized contacts with the United States
and NATO (much to Russia's chagrin).
Meeting with servicemen of the 201st Military Base in Tajikistan,
President Vladimir Putin said that "... NATO no longer performs the
function it was established to perform during the Cold War era." The
Russian leader said as well that official Moscow would like the
Alliance to remain within the margins set by its own charter. "Its
unwillingness to do so creates threats... We cannot help formulating
our defense policy in such a manner as to neutralize these threats,"
said Putin.
Russia and its CSTO allies therefore run joint exercises and practice
neutralization of the threats in question.
[Translated from Russian]
From: A. Papazian
WPS Agency
October 9, 2012 Tuesday
Russia
COLLECTIVE DEFENSE
by : Vladimir Mukhin
Source: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, No 209, October 9, 2012, p. 1
RUSSIA PREPARES ITSELF FOR CONFLICTS IN THE POST-SOVIET ZONE; Countries
of the CIS Collective Security Treaty Organization run join exercises.
Exercises Clear Sky'2012 and Indestructible Brotherhood'2012 of the
CIS Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) were organized
on the territories of Russia and Kazakhstan. Official sources call
the exercises planned in advance and arranged to ensure security of
the countries that comprise the CSTO - Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
If the legends of the exercises in question are any indication,
CSTO troops might be committed to battle in the near future - say,
in Nagorno-Karabakh in the Caucasus and somewhere in the Central
Asian region.
President of Armenia Serj Sargsjan recently commented on frequent
incidents on the border with Azerbaijan. In fact, Sargsjan did not even
rule out the possibility of another a new war over Nagorno-Karabakh. In
Central Asia, the matter comes down to water issues, according to
Uzbek leader Islam Karimov. Uzbekistan suspended its membership in
the CSTO this summer and vitalized contacts with the United States
and NATO (much to Russia's chagrin).
Meeting with servicemen of the 201st Military Base in Tajikistan,
President Vladimir Putin said that "... NATO no longer performs the
function it was established to perform during the Cold War era." The
Russian leader said as well that official Moscow would like the
Alliance to remain within the margins set by its own charter. "Its
unwillingness to do so creates threats... We cannot help formulating
our defense policy in such a manner as to neutralize these threats,"
said Putin.
Russia and its CSTO allies therefore run joint exercises and practice
neutralization of the threats in question.
[Translated from Russian]
From: A. Papazian