DUSHANBE, August 28, Asia-Plus — The Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) met in Moscow on August 27. The CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha also took part at the meeting.
According to the CSTO Secretariat, the CSTO authorized representatives considered draft documents aimed at promoting further improvement of the Organization activities.
The Permanent Council, in particular, discussed draft regulation on uniform for servicemen of the new Collective Operational Reaction Forces (CORF), formed within the framework of the CSTO.
The document has been prepared by the CSTO joint staff within the framework of Russian Defense Ministry’s initiative to provide the CORF servicemen with common uniform for the purpose of creating conditions for their joint actions in different climatic conditions, press release issued by the CSTO Secretariat said.
The document will be submitted or consideration to the CSTO member nations.
The organization groups Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
As it had been reported earlier, a military exercise, marking the first official testing of the CORF began in Moscow on August 26. Exercises take place in three separate stages. The initial phase in Moscow involves command-staff planning linked to the military-political aspects of coalition interaction, while military units will join the second and third stages, in Belarus in late September, and Kazakhstan in October.
The CORF is a Russian initiative intended to transform and expand by three to four times the existing CSTO rapid reaction dimension into a permanently ready, combat-capable force designed for intervention in crisis situations on the territory of CSTO member states.
