CIS air force experts meet in Belarus capital to discuss strategy

Belarusian television, Minsk
14 Jun 05

[Presenter] The use of air forces under the Collective Security Treaty
Organization is being discussed today in Minsk. In the course of a
three-day meeting, military experts from Belarus, Russia, Armenia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will work out a mechanism for
using air forces to rebut military aggression in the Eastern European,
Caucasian and Central Asian regions. The choice of Minsk as a locale
of the meeting is hardly accidental. Military cooperation between
Belarus and Russia is the most efficient and promising in the CIS
and could be used as a model by other member states of the Collective
Security Treaty Organizations.

[Commander of the Belarusian air force and air defence forces Lt-Gen
Aleh Paferaw] The experience of cooperating with Russia will certainly
be used as a basis. Perhaps not as a basis, but we will show what
we have achieved. It is up to each member state to decide whether it
will apply this experience.