CIS security states to hold three exercises in 2006 – Russian official

Interfax-AVN military news agency web site
21 Jun 05

Moscow, 21 June: The armed forces of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization will hold three command and staff exercises in 2006, the
organization’s secretary, Nikolay Bordyuzha, told Interfax-AVN.

“In 2006 we are planning to hold at least three command and staff
exercises within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization,” Bordyuzha said.

He said the now traditional exercises with the codename Rubezh will be
held in the usual region – Central Asia.

“The main theme will also a theme that has become traditional – how to
counter armed terrorist groups,” the organization’s secretary-general,
Nikolay Bordyuzha, said.

He said two other command and staff exercises would be held with the
relevant group of forces of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization in other regions under the collective security agreement
in 2006 – the eastern Europe and the Caucasus regions.

“These exercises will be held in Armenia in the first half of 2006 and
in Belarus in the second half of the year,” the secretary-general
said.