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September 20, 2012 Thursday
COLLECTIVE NATIONAL DEFENSE
Source: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, No 193, September 20, 2012, p. 1
by: Vladimir Mukhin
CSTO, AN ALLIANCE OF SIX POST-SOVIET STATES, IS TO BE REORGANIZED; The
CIS Collective Security Treaty Organization is about to reorganized
into an analog of the Warsaw Treaty Organization.
The CIS Collective Security Treaty Organization, an alliance
comprising six post-Soviet republics (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan) is to be reorganized. CIS CSTO
Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha said at exercise Cooperation'2012
under way in Armenia that "CIS CSTO troops will be formed soon, ones
comprising all existing elements." The United HQ will be enlarged and
reorganized too. CIS CSTO troops command will be supranational, just
like in the Warsaw Treaty Organization founded in 1955.
The reorganized CIS CSTO and Warsaw Treaty Organization (WT) will have
much in common indeed, particularly from the standpoint of command.
The WT included the Political Consultative Council comprising general
(first) secretaries of WT countries. The CIS CSTO will have the
Collective Security Council that is going to make decisions concerning
the use of the military component of the organization. This structure
will comprise presidents of member-states. The United HQ will be
commanded by a Russian officer, also just like in the defunct WT. As
matters stand, the United HQ is commanded by Colonel General Saken
Zhasuzakov of Kazakhstan, but he is about to be replaced with Russian
Airborne Troops Commander Colonel General Vladimir Shamanov.
Approached for comments, Bordyuzha confirmed Shamanov's promotion.
According to Bordyuzha, the CIS CSTO troops will include
"peacekeepers, Fast Response Collective Forces, bilateral army roups,
Central Asian Fast Response Forces, and some other elements including
aviation assets."
[Translated from Russian]
September 20, 2012 Thursday
COLLECTIVE NATIONAL DEFENSE
Source: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, No 193, September 20, 2012, p. 1
by: Vladimir Mukhin
CSTO, AN ALLIANCE OF SIX POST-SOVIET STATES, IS TO BE REORGANIZED; The
CIS Collective Security Treaty Organization is about to reorganized
into an analog of the Warsaw Treaty Organization.
The CIS Collective Security Treaty Organization, an alliance
comprising six post-Soviet republics (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan) is to be reorganized. CIS CSTO
Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha said at exercise Cooperation'2012
under way in Armenia that "CIS CSTO troops will be formed soon, ones
comprising all existing elements." The United HQ will be enlarged and
reorganized too. CIS CSTO troops command will be supranational, just
like in the Warsaw Treaty Organization founded in 1955.
The reorganized CIS CSTO and Warsaw Treaty Organization (WT) will have
much in common indeed, particularly from the standpoint of command.
The WT included the Political Consultative Council comprising general
(first) secretaries of WT countries. The CIS CSTO will have the
Collective Security Council that is going to make decisions concerning
the use of the military component of the organization. This structure
will comprise presidents of member-states. The United HQ will be
commanded by a Russian officer, also just like in the defunct WT. As
matters stand, the United HQ is commanded by Colonel General Saken
Zhasuzakov of Kazakhstan, but he is about to be replaced with Russian
Airborne Troops Commander Colonel General Vladimir Shamanov.
Approached for comments, Bordyuzha confirmed Shamanov's promotion.
According to Bordyuzha, the CIS CSTO troops will include
"peacekeepers, Fast Response Collective Forces, bilateral army roups,
Central Asian Fast Response Forces, and some other elements including
aviation assets."
[Translated from Russian]