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    Collective Security Treaty to ensure Russia's military presence in CIS

    Interfax-AVN military news agency web site
    1 Oct 04

    Moscow, 1 October: A protocol expanding supplies on easy terms of
    defence hardware for Collective Security Treaty Organization [CSTO]
    member nations has been submitted to the State Duma, an official in
    the lower house headquarters told Interfax-Military News Agency today.

    The protocol allows for supplies of defence hardware to be given not
    only to units incorporated in multinational forces of the organization
    but also to all services of the member nations, the official said. The
    protocol also provides for sending arms to any member nation in
    numerous cases, including an aggression against a member nation,
    realization of the nation's right to self-defence under the UN
    Charter, and terrorist attacks or other threats to national
    sovereignty and territorial integrity.

    "The decision to expand supplies on easy terms of defence hardware was
    made to boost efficiency of military technical cooperation between
    member nations of the treaty," the official said. The protocol's
    ratification will contribute to the strengthening of military and
    political integration in the CSTO framework, maintaining optimal
    military presence of Russia on the former USSR territory, and
    countering attempts at forming regional security systems not involving
    Russia, the document's explanatory note reads. The CSTO includes
    Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
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