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Post-Soviet security bloc mulls unified standards for weapons, military hardware

MOSCOW, April 7. /TASS/. Unified standards for weapons and military hardware of member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the Moscow-led security alliance of former-Soviet republics, are planned to be introduced in the nearest future, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told TASS on Tuesday. The vice-premier, who oversees the domestic defense and industrial sector in the Russian government, said the post-Soviet security bloc decided to set up the OSCE council on the defense and industrial cooperation at a level of deputy prime ministers of the member states. "It is probable that I will head the council," Rogozin said in an inter\view with TASS. "The council’s first session is likely to take place in late May." "The first decision we will make will first of all concern the standardization of weapons and military hardware," he said. "In other words we will have to work out unified standards and unified classification codes in order to simplify technical maintenance of equipment, which had been in use within the OSCE frames, and in order to provide acceptable price policy in this regard." The Collective Security Treaty was signed in 1992 and the organization itself was set up 10 years later. Russia, which held the presidency in the CSTO, passed the rotating chair this year to Tajikistan. The CSTO, which is comprised of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, regularly holds military drills on the territories of its member states. Read more

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