CIS chiefs of General Staff to discuss military cooperation plan until 2020 in Baku
7 April 2014, 13:33 -- The CIS Committee of Chiefs of General Staff will hold its next sitting in Baku, Azerbaijan, on April 8, and Russian General Staff Chief Valery Gerasimov will preside over the meeting, the Russian Defense Ministry press service and information department said.
"The sides will discuss conceptual approaches to military cooperation between CIS member countries in the period until 2020 and joint events the armed forces of CIS member countries will have in 2015," says a report, according to Interfax. The agenda is focused on the deployment and development of joint military systems.
For instance, the sides will consider drafts of a concept of development of the unified state radar identification system, an agreement on the status of servicemen of CIS engineering forces in humanitarian demining operations, and an agreement on the exchange of geospatial information between the armed forces of CIS member countries, the ministry reported. The agenda also includes some practical cooperation issues, among them contests in field (air, maritime) skills of CIS servicemen and their participation in Open Water pontoon exercises.
"Decisions to be made at the Committee meeting will spur on the development of multilateral military cooperation between partners based on regional and national interests," the ministry said.
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