GENERAL STAFF HEAD OF ARMENIAN FORCES, CSTO REPRESENTATIVES DISCUSS RUBEZH 2008 MANEUVERS
ARKA
March 20, 2008
YEREVAN, March 20. /ARKA/. Head of the General Staff of Armenian
Forces Seiran Ohanian, CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization)
representatives, as well as Russia’s and Tajikistan’s defense ministers
discussed on March 19 Rubezh (Border) 2008 upcoming maneuvers in
Armenia.
The participants to the meeting touched upon organizational issues of
the military exercises, RA Defense Ministers’ Press Secretary Seiran
Shakhsuvarian reported.
Rubezh 2008 four-stage joint military exercises will be held in Russia
and Armenia in summer-fall 2008. About 4,000 servicemen from Armenia,
Russia and Tajikistan will participate in the maneuvers.
Armored troops, conventional artillery, army artillery groups, ground
attack aircrafts and engineer troops will participate in the exercises.
Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Uzbekistan and
Tajikistan are CSTO members.