DEFENSE OF ARMENIA TO BE SIMULATED IN CSTO EXERCISE
Russia & CIS General Newswire
October 30, 2007 Tuesday 9:26 PM MSK
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will hold a command
post exercise in 2008 that would simulate "a joint defensive operation
to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic
of Armenia," the Russian defense minister’s spokesman said
Russia and Armenia would be the sites of the Rubezh 2008 exercise,
to be held in the summer.
It will be the first CSTO exercise to take place in Armenia, the
spokesman, Col. Alexei Kuznetsov, told reporters.
The Russian and Armenian defense ministers, Anatoly Serdyukov and
Mikael Arutiunian, approved a plan of preparations for the exercise
in Yerevan on Tuesday.