CIS SECURITY MEETING IN KYRGYZSTAN DISCUSSES CLOSER COOPERATION

Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency, Almaty
10 Aug 06

Bishkek, 10 August: The drawing up of a package of documents on the
improvement of the legal basis for military and economic cooperation
within the CSTO [Collective Security Treaty Organization] have been
included on the agenda of a meeting of the interstate military and
economic cooperation commission of the CSTO member states. The meeting
was opened in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, today.

An Interfax correspondent reports that the heads of the national
bodies of the interstate military and economic cooperation commission,
as well as representatives of the military departments in Russia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia and Tajikistan are participating in
the meeting. A delegation from Uzbekistan is also attending.

[Passage omitted: Kyrgyz Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism
Medetbek Kerimkulov stressed that military and technical integration
of the states should be discussed at the meeting; the meting will
discuss the setting up of a working group and election of the chairman
of the commission]