CSTO chief, Kyrgyz experts to discuss CSTO situation development.

BISHKEK, March 29 (Itar-Tass) -- The situation development in the
responsibility zone of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)
will be high on the agenda of a conference entitled the CSTO as the factor
of stability and security in the Central Asian region.

The conference will
be held in the Kyrgyz capital Monday with the participation CSTO Secretary
General Nikolai Bordyuzha, the press service of the Kyrgyz presidential
secretariat told Itar-Tass.
Deputies of Kyrgyz parliament, the chiefs and experts of state
agencies and public organizations and political experts will also
participate in the forum.
"The conference will discuss the development of the current situation
in the CSTO responsibility zone, the defining of challenges and threats
that bring about instability in the region, as well as the outlining of
the trends to ensure security in the CSTO states," the press service said.
"This is a scheduled visit held as part of the preparations to a
forthcoming CSTO summit and to discuss the measures to realize the
decisions taken by the CSTO Collective Security Council," Nikolai
Bordyuzha said earlier, speaking about the goals of his forthcoming visit
in Bishkek.
During his visit in Kyrgyzstan Bordyuzha will also meet with the top
military officials of the republic and President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the
CSTO secretariat reported.

.Some 153 miners trapped in flooded coalmine in northern China.

BEIJING, March 29 (Itar-Tass) -- The number of miners trapped in a
flooded coalmine under construction in northern China reached 153 people,
the Xinhua news agency reported this specified information on Monday.
The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon at a coalmine in Shanxi
Province. According to the preliminary investigation, 261 miners were in
the shaft at the moment of the disaster, 108 of them were lifted safely to
the ground. Most of those, who are still trapped in the shaft, are labor
migrants from the provinces Shanxi, Hebei, Hunan and Guangzhou, Xinhua
quoted a rescuer as saying. No reports are available about the condition
of miners trapped in the shaft.
Chinese President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao ordered
local authorities to do their best to save the miners trapped in the
flooded mine and to take all measures to avoid similar incidents in the
future.

.RF's Pacific Fleet preparing for first 2010 convoy in Gulf of Aden.

VLADIVOSTOK, March 29 (Itar-Tass) -- A group of the Russian Pacific
Fleet warships reached the Horn of Africa and is preparing for the first
2010 convoy of vessels from various countries in the dangerous Gulf of
Aden. In the international naval forces Russian warships will ensure
navigation security, suppressing pirate attacks.
The voyage of the Pacific Fleet warships to the Somali coast was held
as scheduled, the naval sailors are feeling well, all systems and
equipment are operating well.
The Pacific Fleet group consisting of the anti-submarine ship The
Marshall Shaposhnikov, a sea rescue tugboat and the tanker Pechenga under
the command of Captain First Rank Ildar Akhmerov set out from Vladivostok
on February 24.
This is the fourth Pacific Fleet convoy since the launch of the
international anti-piracy operation in the Gulf of Aden and the first
convoy this year. In 2009 the Pacific Fleet warships have escorted three
convoys of merchant vessels from various countries along the dangerous
coast of the Horn of Africa.
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