KYRGYZ DEFENCE MINISTER TO ATTEND CIS MEETING IN ARMENIA 21 MAY

AKIpress news agency web site, Bishkek
20 May 04

Kyrgyz Defence Minister Esen Topoyev is to attend a regular session
of the CIS Council of Defence Ministers in the Armenian capital,
Yerevan, on 21 May, Kyrgyz news agency AKIpress reported on 20 May.

The CIS countries will be discussing more than 20 questions relating
to military and technical cooperation.

They will also be looking at the question of coordinating the positions
of CIS states on the problems of nuclear proliferation within the
context of preparations for an international conference in 2005 on
the implementation of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear
Weapons, the agency added.