MOSCOW. June 28 (Interfax-AVN) - Envoys of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member nations are to meet in Moscow on Friday, a spokesman for the main office of the Collective Security Council told Interfax-Military News Agency.
The participants in the session chaired by Secretary General of the Council Valery Nikolayenko are to sum up results of the Southern Shield of the Commonwealth 2002 exercises carried out in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan from June 12 to 16, the spokesman said.
The exercises were staged with employment of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces; participants in the session are, among other things, to discuss provision of the forces with Russian armament and equipment.
They are also to consider a package of documents on setting up a new regional organization designated as the Collective Security Treaty Organization. It is also necessary to form the unified headquarters of the organization in order to control and coordinate activities of regional security systems and the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces.
Six nations signed the Collective Security Treaty on May 15 1992; these are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian and Tajikistan. The Collective Rapid Deployment Forces were set up in Yerevan on May 25, 2001 under the corresponding decision of four CIS nations, that is Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The forces total some 1,300 servicemen.