Mutual cooperation plans for 2016 also were signed
with participating Commonwealth of Independent States defense ministers
MOSCOW, December 23. /TASS/. Russia
and Armenia signed an agreement on establishing the Combined Regional Air
Defense System in the Caucasian Collective Security Region on Wednesday.
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and his Armenian counterpart Seiran
Oganian put their signatures to the document. The agreement was signed after
the ministers' bilateral meeting.
The two defense ministries also signed a cooperation plan for 2016.
Mutual cooperation plans for 2016 were also signed with other
defense ministers, with whom Sergey Shoigu met in bilateral meetings - Kyrgyz
General Staff Chief Colonel Zhanybek Kaparov, Tajik Defense Minister Lt. Gen.
Sherali Mirzo, Azerbaijani Defense Minister Col. Gen. Zakir Gasanov and Kazakh
Defense Minister Imangali Tasmagambetov. The meeting of the Russian and Azeri
defense ministers was held under the closed doors.
"We have approved for 2016 a plan of work of the
Defense Ministers' Council of the CIS countries and a plan of common steps on
the joint air defense system," Shoigu said summing up the results of the
meeting.
At the meeting, the ministers revised a cooperation plan for troops of the
joint air defense system and the documents regulating the work of the
coordination committee on the air defense issues at the CIS Defense Ministers’
Council.
A number of bilateral meetings were also held, Shoigu said. "During
the talks, we discussed a broad range of issues of cooperation in the military
and military-technical spheres. The plans of bilateral cooperation of the
defense ministries were signed for the next year," he said.
The participants of the meeting confirmed plans to further develop
partnership based on the balance of common, regional and national interests.
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