"RUBEZH 2008" MILITARY EXERCISES TO BE HELD IN ARMENIA IN 2008 WITHIN FRAMEWORKS OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY TREATY ORGANIZATION

Noyan Tapan
Dec 5, 2007

MOSCOW, DECEMBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. Issues concerning the documents
signed during the 2007 sittings of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization regulation bodies, including the realization of decisions
on holding the forthcoming sittings of the regulation bodies of the
Organization under the RA chairmanship in the second half of the next
year in the Collective Security Treaty Organization were discussed
during the meeting held on December 5 between Nikolai Bordyuzha,
the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization,
and Vardan Oskanian, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic
of Armenia, who is in the Russian Federation on a working visit.

The interlocutors mentioned the active participation of Armenia in the
Organization proceedings, expressing conviction that the appointment
of a new plenipotentiary representative of Armenia in the Collective
Security Treaty Organization, providing continuousness of involvement
of the Republic of Armenia, will contribute to the increase in the
productivity of the comprehensive cooperation. Issues connected with
the organization of "Rubezh 2008" military exercises within the
frameworks of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the
participation of member countries in these military exercises were
also discussed.

According to the information provided to Noyan Tapan by the Press
and Information Department of the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
the parties also touched upon the cooperation issues of the foreign
departments of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member
countries within the frameworks of international and regional
organizations.