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    Armenia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan rebuild air-defense networks
    17:09 | 31/ 03/ 2006

    RIA Novosti, Russia
    March 31 2006

    MOSCOW, March, 31 (RIA Novosti) - A deputy commander of the CIS
    Integrated Air Defense System said Friday that in the past decade the
    air defense networks of Armenia, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan had been
    restored from scratch.

    "During this time, air defense networks have been effectively revived
    in the Republic of Armenia, and much has been done in this respect
    in the Republic of Tajikistan and the Republic of Kyrgyzstan," Lt. Gen.

    Aitech Bizhev said, referring to the Commonwealth of Independent
    States, the loose alliance that replaced the Soviet Union.

    He said that the Belarusian air defense network was by far the
    most operationally effective, one of the most powerful in Europe,
    adding that Kazakhstan was implementing a comprehensive air defense
    modernization program, which could become a major factor in ensuring
    strategic stability in Central Asia.

    The CIS Integrated Air Defense System is comprised of Armenia, Belarus,
    Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
    Uzbekistan, and Ukraine. Georgia recently pulled out of the CIS
    Defense Ministers Council, but is still formally part of the air
    defense system.

    Over the past decade, more than 100 joint war games and military
    exercises have been conducted with up to 60 various aircraft and
    other high-tech equipment used in each exercise.

    The Agreement on the Creation of the CIS Integrated Air Defense System
    was signed by 10 CIS states on February 10, 1995.
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