TAJIK MINISTER OBSERVES CIS AIR DEFENCE DRILL IN RUSSIA
Asia-Plus news agency website
30 Aug 05
Dushanbe, 30 August: Today Tajik Defence Minister Sherali Khayrulloyev
is attending the final stage of the joint exercise of the CIS
Integrated Air Defence System called Combat Commonwealth-2005, which
is being held at the Russian Ashuluk military range, a source at the
Tajik Defence Ministry has told Asia-Plus.
It will be recalled that formations and units from the air defence
troops and air forces of the four CIS countries – Armenia, Belarus,
Russia and Tajikistan – are taking part in the exercise.
The surface-to-air missile battalion of the Tajik air defence forces
is representing Tajikistan in the exercise.
[Passage omitted: Known details of the exercise]