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Moscow hosts Council of CIS Defense Ministers

15 April 2010 [11:16] - TODAY.AZ
The Council of CIS Defense Ministers had a meeting Wednesday here under the chairmanship of Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, according to Itar-Tass.

“It was a correct decision to organize the Council of Defense Ministers, and it is an effective instrument in maintaining security,” Serdyukov said at the opening of the meeting, in which ministers and their deputies from the ten member-countries took part. “The threat of new conflicts has not faded away, and there still remain threats to security of the CIS counties.”

“The future of our cooperation depends on how we implement our decisions,” he said.

The participants in the meeting “discussed about 20 topics of the CIS countries’ cooperation,” the Council's secretariat said.


/AzerTac/
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