CIS-based regional organization sets up commission to promote arms trading

Interfax-AVN military news agency web site
5 Nov 04

MOSCOW

The Collective Security Treaty Organization is setting up a commission
to promote arms trading and military cooperation, the organization’s
Secretary- General Nikolay Bordyuzha told Interfax-Military News
Agency yesterday.

“By creating the commission for military cooperation, we want to step
up contacts in this area. We have plenty of suggestions on
establishing joint ventures and holdings to repair and upgrade Soviet
and Russian-made weapons and military hardware, joint research and
development efforts and programmes aimed at designing certain kinds of
arms,” Bordyuzha said. The commission will operate on a permanent
basis, he said.

[The Collective Security Treaty Organization comprises Armenia,
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan.]