MOSCOW. April 2 (Interfax-AVN) - The participants in a session of the CIS committee of armed forces chiefs of staff to take place in Baku next week are supposed to endorse a concept of partner relations for a five-year period, Lt. Gen. Alexander Sinaisky, the secretary of the CIS Council of Defense Ministers, told Interfax-AVN on Wednesday.
"The agenda of the session of the CIS committee of armed forces chiefs of staff to take place in Baku on April 7-8 contains 15 subjects related to multilateral interaction between the Commonwealth's armed forces. The main one is the endorsement of a concept of partner relations between the CIS members for the period from 2015 to 2020," Sinaisky said.
The session in Baku will be held under the chairmanship of Russian First Deputy Defense Minister and chief of staff of the Russian Armed Forces Army Gen. Valery Gerasimov, who is the chairman of the CIS committee of armed forces chiefs of staff, he said.
Taking part in the session will also be members of the CIS Executive Committee and the CIS Council of Defense Ministers secretariat, he said.
"The CIS Council of Defense Ministers now is not a military-political alliance but a regional organization whose main job is to strengthen partner relations in the interests of neighborliness and partnership," he said.
The CIS committee of armed forces chiefs of staff was set up on March 27, 1996 to coordinate activities of the general staffs of the armed forces of the CIS member-states in maintaining multilateral military cooperation. The CIS Council of Defense Ministers is in charge of the committee's general control.