COMMON AIR-RAID MILITARY EXERCISES KICK OFF IN RUSSIAN TOWN OF ASTRAKHAN

Panorama.am
14:53 13/08/2007

The second round of military exercises Combat Cooperation 2007
will kick off in a shooting-range in Russian town of Astrakhan
today. Armenia will take part in these military exercises of Newly
Independent States (NIS) common air-raid system as an observer.

The exercises will run until August 24.

Colonel Seiran Shahsuvaryan, the press secretary of the Armenian
Ministry of Defense, told Panorama.am that the Armenian delegation
will leave for Astrakhan later on also saying "the date has not been
fixed yet." The delegation will be spearheaded by Armenian Minister
of Defense Michael Harutunyan.

The Military Air and Air-raid Forces of Russia, Belarus and Ghzghzstan
will take part in these military exercises. The first round took place
in a shooting range in Russian Chita with the third and fourth rounds
slated in Ghazakhstan and Uzbekstan late August or early September.