Russia, U.S. to hold joint military drill

December 2, 2013 - 19:14 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Russia and the United States will hold a joint military exercise next July, a spokesman for Russia’s Central Military District said Monday, December 2, according to RIA Novosti.

Col. Yaroslav Roshchupkin said the drill, dubbed Atlas Vision 2014, will be held in the Chelyabinsk Region in the Urals.

Central Military District troops will also participate in a joint command post exercise with peacekeeping forces of a regional security bloc – the Collective Security Treaty Organization – in Kyrgyzstan in July, and in a similar drill with Chinese troops in China in August.

The military district’s troops have held over 100 drills at various levels during 2013, including Russian-Chinese command post exercise Peace Mission 2013, Roshchupkin said.

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CSTO

The Collective Security Treaty Organization, formed under the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States, serves as a mutual defense alliance among Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. The Collective Security Treaty (CST) was signed on May 15, 1992 for five-year term, with the possibility of prolongation. On December 2, 2004 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Resolution to grant the observer status to the Collective Security Treaty Organization in the General Assembly of the United Nations. The goal of the Collective Security Treaty Organization is to strengthen peace and international and regional security and stability and to ensure collective protection of independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of Member States, in the attainment of which Member States shall give priority to political methods. On February 4, 2009, the CSTO leaders approved formation of Collective Rapid Reaction Force (RRF).