MOSCOW. Sept 26 (Interfax-AVN) - A session of the CIS chiefs-of-staff started in the CIS military co-operation co-ordination headquarters on Wednesday, a spokesman for the headquarters told Interfax-Military News Agency.
The session is chaired by Russian Chief-of-Staff Anatoly Kvashnin and involves chiefs-of-Staff from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine as well as authorised officials. Among other participants of the session are Collective Security Council Secretary General Valery Nikolayenko, head of the CIS anti-terrorist centre Boris Mylnikov, Collective Quick Deployment Forces Commander Major General Sergei Chernomordin and officials of the co-ordination service of the CIS Border Guard Troops Commanders Council.
The session participants will discuss military aspects of anti-terrorist activities escalation in the CIS, as well as planning of joint exercises of CIS control departments and troops in 2002. Moreover, they are to consider practical measures that should be taken to establish regional collective security systems and ensure functioning of the Collective Quick Deployment Forces in the Central Asian collective security region.