The Air Defense Coordinating Committee of the Defense Ministers Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States discussed ways of perfecting and further developing the joint air defense system in Cholpon-Ata.
“The meeting of the Coordinating Committee was attended by delegations from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine,” Russian Air Forces spokesman Col. Vladimir Drik told Interfax-AVN.
“The participants summed up the results of the work done by the Coordinating Committee and its working groups in the first half of 2012, negotiated changes in the Coordinating Committee’s composition, discussed plans for joint drills of the CIS’s common air defense system in the second half of 2012 and in 2013,” Drik said.
“Bilateral meetings were held between the delegation leaders after the Coordinating Council conference,” Drik said.
“The discussions centered on the current aspects of combat training and military technical cooperation, the implementation of the Russian-Belarusian agreement to jointly protect the Union State’s external air border and to form a single Russian-Belarusian regional air defense system, and dealt with preparations for signing draft interstate agreements on the formation of regional air defense systems by Russia and Armenia in the Caucasus Collective Security region, and by Russia and Kazakhstan in the Central Asian Collective Security Region,” he said.
