Friday, August 3 2018 16:31

ArmInfo.  The draft agreement  on a common (combined) communication system of the armed forces of  the CIS countries will be submitted to the Council of Heads of  Government, the press service of the CIS Executive Committee informed  BE LTA.

A session of an expert group to negotiate the document concluded at  the CIS headquarters in Minsk on 2 August. Taking part in the meeting  were plenipotentiary representatives and experts from Armenia,  Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Uzbekistan, as well as  the Secretariat of the Council of Defense Ministers and the CIS  Executive Committee.  "The draft document elaborated by the General  Staff of Russia's Armed Forces was harmonized taking into account  remarks and proposals. The CIS Executive Committee will forward the  session records to the CIS member states and the Secretariat of the  Council of Defense Ministers where the draft document will be  scrutinized at the national level," the press service informed. 

The common communication system will be set up, built up and function  in order to maintain the adequate level of control by means of  effective use of the communication systems of national armed forces  and government communication networks of the participating states.  "The document sets out, among other things, the major tasks for the  common communication system. They include provision of communication  services and exchange of all types of information, support for the  activities of the unified interaction systems in the military sphere  of the CIS," the press service informed. 

The draft agreement is expected to reconcile approaches to the  development of the system and approaches to technical and  organizational matters of military cooperation. It will also  stimulate priority provision of national armed forces with up-to-date  communication equipment, BELTA informs.