CIS to hold antiterror drill in Tajikistan in early 2005 – Russian minister
ITAR-TASS news agency
25 Nov 04
Moscow, 25 November: The CIS Collective Rapid Deployment Force for the
Central Asian region is to hold an antiterrorist exercise in Tajikistan
in early 2005, Russian Defence Minister Sergey Ivanov said today.
According to him, the exercise will be on the whole similar to
that held by the Collective Rapid Deployment Force in Kyrgyzstan
last August.
The minister said that at the session of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization agreement had been reached on a balanced build-up
of forces in all three areas of the Collective Rapid Deployment
Force’s responsibility: Belarus in the west, Armenia in the south,
and Central Asia.