MOSCOW. Oct 14 (Interfax-AVN) - Chairman of the State Duma defense committee Andrei Nikolayev said on Tuesday that it is necessary to ratify documents in the framework of the agreement on military-technical cooperation between member nations of the Collective Security Treaty as soon as possible.
"The parliamentary defense committee insists on the soonest ratification of the protocol on the order of controlling the use of military-purpose products supplied in the framework of the agreement on main principles of military-technical cooperation between member nations of the Collective Security Treaty of May 15, 1992," Nikolayev told Interfax-Military News Agency.
"Ratification of the protocol, which is an inalienable part of the agreement, meets interests of long-term military-technical cooperation in the Collective Security Treaty framework," he stressed.
A spokesman for the State Duma administration told Interfax- AVN that the Duma is planning to discuss the protocol's ratification in October. Deputy Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Trubnikov is appointed representative of the Russian president's administration at the discussion.
The protocol on the order of controlling the use of military- purpose products supplied in the framework of the agreement on the main principles of military-technical cooperation between member nations of the Collective Security Treaty was signed by the prime ministers of Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan in February 2002. Belarus signed the protocol in late 2002 with a reservation.
The agreement on main principles of military-technical cooperation between member nations of the Collective Security Treaty was signed in Moscow in June 2000. It provides for the supplies of military-purpose products in the interests of national military formations that are assigned for multilateral forces in collective security regions.
"The agreement has been ratified by all the states that signed it and has come into force. The protocol determines goals and main principles of control, as well as the order of interaction and the parties' obligations that pertain to effecting the control. Its coming into force will make it possible to realize the agreement in full and create conditions for practical work of interested agencies of the Collective Security Treaty's member nations in the sphere of compiling lists of military-purpose supplies and signing contracts," Nikolayev said.