CSTO joint complex trainings on using collective rapid reaction forces will start on scheduled date – August 26. All kinds of rumors on rescheduling the date are disinformation pursuing specific goals, CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha said.
“CSTO Secretariat views recent media reports and comments on “postponement and disruption” of military exercises as disinformation aimed at undermining friendly relations among CSTO member states,” Bordyuzha said.
Trainings on “Preparation and Use of CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces and Servicemen – in the Interests of Ensuring Collective Security” will take place on scheduled date, Bordyuzha noted. Referring to organization’s Secretariat, media reported earlier that CRRF military exercises were postponed to a later date.
Recent reports on CSTO’s allegedly «frustrating» Minsk are untrue, CSTO official added.
«CRRF exercises to be held in Belarus are one of the most important stages of complex trainings on «Organizing CSTO member states’ armed forces’ operations in Eastern European collective security region». Training participants will be representatives from Belarus, Russia Armenia andn Kazakhstan,» CSTO Secretary General said.
Belarusian military agencies were most actively involved in elaboration and preparation of training program. “I have no doubt that scheduled event will be organized on highest level,” Bordyzha stressed.
The first stage will probably start on August 26 in Moscow in CSTO united headquarters. The second stage is due in mid-September on Belarusian territory, and the third stage is scheduled for October in Kazakhstan, Bordyuzha said.
Such time-limits, according to him, were specified in March 2009 during CSTO member states’ working consultation and revised in April 2009 during headquarter negotiations between representatives from CSTO member states’ Defense Ministries and CSTO united headquarters, Interfax reports.
