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Russia, China to Hold Joint Military Exercises Under SCO Aegis
Created: 18.05.2006 16:04 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:05 MSK
MosNews
Two regional security organizations comprising post-Soviet nations and China are planning joint military exercises, the chief of Russia’s general staff said Thursday, the RIA Novosti news agency reports.
“We are currently discussing a joint exercise under the aegis of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO),” Yury Baluyevsky said, adding that the date of the exercise, which would also involve troops from Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) nations, had yet to be decided.
Baluyevsky said the exercises would practice joint counteraction against terrorist threats.
The chiefs of the CSTO nations’ general staffs held a meeting in Moscow Thursday to discuss ways to make the collective security system more effective, including by improving control of the Collective Rapid Reaction Force, which currently numbers 1,500 military personnel deployed in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which comprises the former Soviet republics in Central Asia — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan — as well as Russia and China, was created in 2001 to deal with security issues, including border conflicts, and terrorism.
These countries, without China, also form the CSTO, which also includes Belarus and Armenia. The CSTO is seen by some experts as a counterbalance to NATO’s eastward expansion. CSTO was created in the framework of Commonwealth of Independent States in 1994. The treaty affirmed the desire of all participating states to abstain from the use or threat of force against each other and obliged signatories not to join other military alliances or other groups of states, while an aggression against one signatory would be perceived as an aggression against all.
Unlike the CSTO, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization does not have in its charter a provision on collective defense of its member by others in the event of an outside attack. It was created to counter attacks by illegal armed groups if they cross the border of a member-country, and its military activities are rather limited, although two of its members, Russia and China, held major war games last fall.
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