SAMARKAND. April 12 (Interfax) - The heads of the military delegations of Russia and the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have discussed the development of regional air defense systems at a meeting of the Air Defense Coordination Committee at the CIS Council of Defense Ministers in Samarkand.
The meeting discussed he practical implementation of a Russian-Armenian agreement on the creation of the unified regional air defense system in the Caucasian collective security region, Air Defense Coordination Committee, Russian Aerospace Forces Deputy Commander Col. Gen. Yury Grekhov told journalists on Wednesday.
The meeting also addressed the practical implementation of a Russian-Kazakh agreement on the creation of the unified regional air defense system, as well as the development of the Russian-Tajik and Russian Kyrgyz unified regional air defense system, he said.
"The coordination committee meeting ended with the discussion of combat training, military and technical cooperation and joint air defense combat duty as part of the Russian-Belarusian regional air defense system," Grekhov said.
Delegations from the defense ministries of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as representatives of the CIS Executive Committee, the Secretariat of the CIS Council of Defense Ministers, the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation and defense industries of Russia and Uzbekistan.