RESISTANCE TO POSSIBLE AGGRESSION DRILLED DURING EXERCISE STAGE IN ARMENIA

Interfax News Agency
July 28 2008
Russia

The results of stage one of command post exercises of Collective
Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)

Frontier-2008 in Armenia have been summed up in Yerevan, Interfax-AVN
was told at the CSTO secretariat on Monday.

"Summing up stage one Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian noted
that the exercises became a reason for the leadership of all the
country’s agencies to once again focus on issues that will face the
state in the event of possible aggression helping to eradicate all
the existing shortcomings with the purpose of improving the country’s
defense in conditions of the current military-political situation,"
a spokesman for the secretariat said.

He said Ohanian praised the interaction of different agencies during
the exercise. He said that a working study group held meetings and
discussions with nine agencies to define and check the efforts aimed
at rebuffing the possible aggression of an adversary.

The spokesman said Moscow would host stage two of the exercises on
July 30-31.