DUSAHNBE, May 31, Asia-Plus — Tajik Defense Minister Sherali Khairulloyev is attend the 50
th
meeting of the council of the CIS defense ministers that open in the Azerbaijani capital city of Baku today.
The meeting is considering issues related to the scope of future military cooperation.
According to information from the Ministry of Defense (MoD), the 21 items on the meeting”s agenda include implementation of the Concept for CIS military cooperation to 2010, the activities of CIS Collective Peacekeeping Forces in the conflict zone in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, and a joint action plan for operative training in the CIS armed forces for 2007.
On the sidelines of the meeting, Sherali Khairulloyev is also supposed to hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts from some of the CIS states.
Defense ministers from
Tajikistan
,
Azerbaijan
,
Belarus
,
Kazakhstan
,
Kyrgyzstan
,
Moldova
,
Russia
and
Uzbekistan
are attending the CIS defense ministers’ meeting in
Baku
.
Armenia
,
Georgia
and
Turkmenistan
have refused to attend the meeting in
Azerbaijan
.
The CIS, a loose association of former Soviet republics, comprises
Armenia
,
Azerbaijan
,
Belarus
,
Georgia
,
Kazakhstan
,
Kyrgyzstan
,
Moldova
,
Russia
,
Tajikistan
,
Ukraine
, and
Uzbekistan
.
Turkmenistan
discontinued permanent membership on
August 26, 2005
and is now an associate member.
