ARMENIA TO HOST CIS EXERCISES ON NUCLEAR PLANT SECURITY
Interfax News Agency
Central Asia General Newswire
September 25, 2006 Monday 1:27 PM MSK
The heads of CIS anti-terrorist units will convene in Armenia on
September 26-29 to work on issues of securing nuclear power plants
from terrorist attack.
The Atom Anti-Terror 2006 joint command exercise, to be held in
conjunction with the meeting, will work on locating and eliminating
sabotage teams that have penetrated into Armenia, CIS Anti-Terrorist
Center head Boris Mylnikov told Interfax.
"The CIS has not held exercises at nuclear power plants before. Yet
Russian secret services have and they will share their experience
with the others," he said.
A task force of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)
headquarters and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Regional
Anti-Terrorist Center will take part in the exercises.
Representatives of the secret services of the G8, China, Greece,
countries accredited in Armenia, and a number of neighbor states will
be observers.
Representatives of the Azerbaijani secret services will not take part
in the exercises "for well-known reasons," while Tajik representatives
won’t attend due to financial problems, he said.