CIS defence and security committee opens session in Armenian capital

Mediamax news agency
6 Oct 04

YEREVAN

A three-day session of the permanent defence and security commission
of the CIS Parliamentary Assembly began in Yerevan today.

The Mediamax parliamentary correspondent reports that those taking
part will discuss a number of proposals for basic model legislative
programmes for combating crime and illegal trading in narcotic and
psychotropic substances and also programmes for cooperation in the
military-technical spheres.

Not taking part in the forum are any representatives from Georgia,
Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The chairman of the permanent
defence and security commission of the CIS Parliamentary Assembly,
Viktor Voytenko, said he was sorry that colleagues from these
countries were absent.