In its 246th plenary session held on April 29, 2009, the RF Federation Council approved the laws on the “Ratification of the Second Protocol Introducing Amendments to the Agreement on the Basic Principles of Military Technical Cooperation among CSTO member states (dated May 15, 1992), and the Second Protocol on the Procedures of Exercising Control over the Goal-oriented Use of Military Products” and the “Ratification on the Protocol Introducing Amendments to the Agreement on the CSTO Legal Status” (dated October 7, 2002).
The law enforcement agencies and special services of non-state parties will benefit from special subsidies in the delivery of military products. That envisages ratification of the Second Protocol to the Agreement on the Basic Principles of Military-Technical Cooperation among CSTO Member States approved by the Federation Council in its 246th plenary session on April 29, 2009.
The amendments aim to enhance the mechanisms of military-technical cooperation among state parties to the Agreement and does not contradict the commitments undertaken by the Russian Federation, the RF FC Press Service reports.
