CIS AIR DEFENSE COORDINATION COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS JOINT AIRSPACE BORDER PROTECTION IN YEREVAN

Interfax News Agency
Central Asia General Newswire
February 14, 2007 Wednesday 3:54 PM MSK

Army General Vladimir Mikhailov, Russian Air Force commander-in-chief,
will depart to Armenia on Wednesday.

"A meting of the CIS Air Defense Coordination Committee and the
periodical training of the commanders of CIS Air Forces and Air Defense
Forces will take place in Yerevan on February 15-16," Air Force Deputy
Commander-in-Chief Lieutenant General Aitech Bizhev told Interfax-AVN.

Mikhailov, who is the head of the Coordination Committee, will chair
the meeting, during which tasks will be assigned for 2007.

The meeting and the training will be held at the military installations
of the Armenian Defense Ministry and the Russian Air Force base in
Yerevan. The participants in the meeting will attend the Central
Command Post of the Armenian Air Defense, the Russian Air Force base
and an Armenian Air Force base, as well as the Marshal Khanferants
Defense Institute, where they will be briefed on the training system
of Air Force and Air Defense specialists of the Caucasian republic.