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CIS GENERALS TO CONDUCT EXERCISE NEAR MOSCOW

RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, FEBRUARY 7 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow and Rzhev in the Tver region (north-west of the Moscow region) are to host a training-methodological session of the coordinating committee for air-defense issues (Council of CIS Defense Ministers) February 7-10. This was disclosed to RIA Novosti today by Col. Alexander Drobyshevsky, chief of the Russian Air Force's press center.

The training-methodological session and the coordinating committee's regular meeting will take place in line with the joint CIS air-defense system's joint-measures plan for 2005, Drobyshevsky added.

CIS air-force and air-defense commanders will discuss the state of the joint CIS air-defense system and its development prospects. They will visit combat-ready air-force and air-defense units in the Moscow region and the Moscow regional automated air-traffic control center in Vnukovo near Moscow.

According to Drobyshevsky, the headquarters for coordinating intra-CIS military cooperation will host a press conference and an official conference on February 10. Both events will be timed to coincide with the joint CIS air-defense system's tenth anniversary.