DELEGATION HEADED BY RA DEFENSE MINISTER TO TAKE PART IN CSTO EXERCISES
PanARMENIAN.Net
17.09.2009 17:54 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The second phase of the joint integrated exercises
of the Collective Security Treaty will be held from September 26 to 29
in Belarus in the framework of strategic exercises of the "West 2009"
Russian and Belarusian armed forces.
RA Ministry of Defense does not plan participation of the armed
forces of Armenia in the exercises, but the Task Force the RA armed
forces, consisting of four persons headed by Colonel G. Tavaratyan
will participate in the exercises, spokesman of the defense minister
Colonel Seyran Shahsuvaryan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.
At the same time, at the invitation of the Defense minister of Belarus
Colonel-General Leonid Maltsev Armenian delegation of the RA Defense
ministry, headed by the minister Seyran Ohanyan will take part in
the active phase of the exercises on September 29.