ST.PETERSBURG. Jan 30 (Interfax-AVN) - Over 200 foreign military inspection teams have visited installations of the Leningrad military district since 1991, the district's department for supporting implementation of treaties said on Thursday.
"For 12 years, the department supported the activity of 203 foreign military inspection teams. We meet and escort foreign inspectors, register armament and hardware, and provide this data to foreign inspectors whose main goal is to check the amount of armament at the controlled installation and its correspondence to provided data," chief of the department Colonel Pyotr Kolvzan told Interfax-Military News Agency.
None of inspection teams has registered any violations of the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty or other treaties in the district, he said.
"The Italian military inspection team that checked the 56th district training center near St. Petersburg last week was no exception. Leader of the team Colonel Antonio Belvederi praised constructive and friendly atmosphere of the inspection," Kolvzan said.