Georgia Quits Post-Soviet Air Defense Treaty

GEORGIA QUITS POST-SOVIET AIR DEFENSE TREATY

Xinhua

May 14 2008
China

MOSCOW, May 14 (Xinhua) — Georgia Wednesday formally withdrew from
an air defense treaty signed by post-Soviet states, Interfax news
agency quoted a statement of the Georgian Foreign Ministry assaying.

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Treaty on Cooperation in
Air Defense, inked in 1995 by Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine,
was designed to create a joint air-defense system.

Georgia informed Russia earlier this month about its decision to
withdraw from the pact, amid tensions between Tbilisi and Moscow.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS