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Second phase of CIS command post exercise to begin in Moscow.
MOSCOW, July 30 (Itar-Tass) - Second phase of the Rubezh'2008 /Frontier'2008/ command post exercise that engages the staffs of thecountries making up the CIS Collective Security Treaty Organization /CSTO/ begins, the press service of CSTO Secretariat said.
This phase will be held on the premises of the organization's Joint Staff in Moscow.
"The participants will work out military and technological assistance to a member-state that may become the target of external aggression," CSTODeputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov said.
He said that the organization has settled all legal issues pertainingto assistance of this kind.
"When the presidents of member-states held a summit in the Tajiskitani capital Dushanbe last October, they signed a protocol on defense and technology aid to member-states in case of an emerging danger of aggression against it or an accomplished fact of aggression," Semerikovsaid.
The CSTO held the first phase of Rubezh'2008 in Armenia in July. It focused on a mechanism of drafting proposals to the Collective Security Council on military and technological assistance to a country that becamea target of aggression.
The program of the command post exercise also features a third stage that will be held in the Marshal Bagramian Center of the Armenian DefenseMinistry.
Its program includes a defense operation in the format of a tacticalexercise that will involve army units from Armenia, Russia and Tajikistan.
Sources at the CSTO Joint Staff said that unlike the previous exercises in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan or Kazakhstan, Rubezh'2008 does not engaged regular units reporting to Interior ministries, the ministries foremergency situations and national security services.
The explanation for this is that the previous exercises were antiterrorist ones and did not presuppose a repelling of externalaggression.
The second phase of Rubezh'2008 involves a contingent of about 4,000 servicemen, howitzer and missile artillery, the army, frontline andinterception aviation, air defense, engineering and signal units.
The CSTO embraces Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia,Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
This phase will be held on the premises of the organization's Joint Staff in Moscow.
"The participants will work out military and technological assistance to a member-state that may become the target of external aggression," CSTODeputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov said.
He said that the organization has settled all legal issues pertainingto assistance of this kind.
"When the presidents of member-states held a summit in the Tajiskitani capital Dushanbe last October, they signed a protocol on defense and technology aid to member-states in case of an emerging danger of aggression against it or an accomplished fact of aggression," Semerikovsaid.
The CSTO held the first phase of Rubezh'2008 in Armenia in July. It focused on a mechanism of drafting proposals to the Collective Security Council on military and technological assistance to a country that becamea target of aggression.
The program of the command post exercise also features a third stage that will be held in the Marshal Bagramian Center of the Armenian DefenseMinistry.
Its program includes a defense operation in the format of a tacticalexercise that will involve army units from Armenia, Russia and Tajikistan.
Sources at the CSTO Joint Staff said that unlike the previous exercises in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan or Kazakhstan, Rubezh'2008 does not engaged regular units reporting to Interior ministries, the ministries foremergency situations and national security services.
The explanation for this is that the previous exercises were antiterrorist ones and did not presuppose a repelling of externalaggression.
The second phase of Rubezh'2008 involves a contingent of about 4,000 servicemen, howitzer and missile artillery, the army, frontline andinterception aviation, air defense, engineering and signal units.
The CSTO embraces Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia,Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
