DUSHANBE, July 4, 2012, Asia-Plus — Tajik Defense Minister, Colonel-General Sherali Khairulloyev, today morning departed for Russia to attend the next meeting of the CIS council of defense ministers that will take place in Kaliningrad on July 5.
An official source at the Tajik Ministry of Defense says that on the sidelines of the event, Khairulloyev will hold a number of bilateral meetings in Kaliningrad
Presided over by Russian Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov, the meeting is expected to bring together defense ministers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan to consider a multilateral military cooperation.
According to the CIS Executive Committee press center, more than twenty issues related to multilateral partnership have been tabled to the meeting’s agenda.
The CIS defense ministers will consider the procedure of use of resources of the satellite group of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and spacecraft of socioeconomic purpose in the interest of the armed forces of the CIA member nations.
The meetings participants will also approve the plan of a joint command-and-staff drill of the air and air defense forces, dubbed Clear Sky-2012, which will be conducted in Kazakhstan from October 5-16 this year, the source said.
Established by the CIS Charter, the Council of Ministers of Defense is vested with the task of coordinating military cooperation of the CIS member states. To this end, the Council develops conceptual approaches to the questions of military and defense policy of the CIS member states; develops proposals aimed to prevent armed conflicts on the territory of the member states or with their participation; gives expert opinions on draft treaties and agreements related to the questions of defense and military developments; issues related suggestions and proposals to the attention of the CIS Council of the Heads of State.
