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Poland acquires five more Mi-17 helicopters
http://www.polishmarket.com.pl/document/:24109?p=%2Flate%2F
2010-10-27
Polish Ministry of Defence has purchased five Mi-17 helicopters, Russian Rosoboroneksport, state enterprise acting as the sole Russian state intermediary agency for export and import of military and dual-purpose products announced yesterday in Paris.
The value of the transaction has not been revealed.
Russia is said to positively evaluate this purchase, as so far Polish Ministry of Defence has acquired Russian military helicopters on the secondary market, Wyborcza.biz reports.
October 27, 2010 14:50 PM
Russian Foreign Minister To Attend 5th East Asia Summit In Hanoi
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsworld.php?id=538691
MOSCOW, Oct 27 (Bernama) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will attend the fifth East Asia Summit (EAS) in Hanoi on October 30 as a special guest, Russian news agency, Itar-Tass, quoted the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying on Tuesday.
This year, the East Asia Summit in Hanoi is expected to take on added importance with the inclusion of Russia and the United States as members of the East Asia summit dialogue process.
"Joining the EAS forum, Russia is committed to promote peace, stability and economic cooperation in the Asia Pacific region, to help shape a better security and cooperation architecture here," the ministry said.
The East Asia Summit (EAS) is a forum held annually by leader of 16 countries in the East Asian region, including Asean countries and Australia, India, China, New Zealand, South Korea, and Japan. EAS meetings are held after annual ASEAN leaders' summits. The first East Asia Summit was held in Kuala Lumpur on December 14, 2005.
Regional organizations boost UN effectiveness – Lavrov
http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/10/27/28740993.html
Oct 27, 2010 11:50 Moscow Time
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov feels that the effectiveness of the UN largely depends on boosting cooperation with regional organizations, such as the Collective Security Treaty Organization and/or the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
These contribute in real terms to fighting terrorism, drug trafficking and organized crime, Russia’s topmost diplomat points out in an interview with the Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily.
He said that the two organizations signed a declaration on cooperation earlier this year.
Lavrov also pointed out that the United Nations, just as any international institution, is in need of continuous reforming to consolidate its unity.
On prospects for extending the Security Council, the Foreign Minister said that Russia was prepared to support a decision to that end that would gain sweeping support of UN member-states.
War games in full swing in Chelyabinsk
http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/10/27/28716437.html
Oct 27, 2010 10:41 Moscow Time
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Military exercises of the Collective Security Treaty Organization are in full swing in the Chelyabinsk Region to the east of the Ural mountains.
Military contingents of the joint rapid reaction force are neutralizing “insurgents” as part of a joint drill known as “Cooperation-2010”.
The war games have been going on since October 25th with the participation of more than 1700 servicemen and about 270 military vehicles from Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Belarus.
Russian General Staff chief to attend EU Military Committee meeting
http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20101027/161099367.html
06:30 27/10/2010
The chief of the Russian General Staff, Army Gen. Nikolai Makarov, will take part in a meeting of the European Union Military Committee at Chiefs of Defense level in Brussels on Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
"During the meeting, the chief of the Russian General Staff will deliver a speech on reforming the Russian Armed Forces and an opportunity to expand cooperation with EU member countries on maintaining peace and providing security on the European continent," the ministry's press service said.
After the meeting, Makarov is expected to return to Moscow, the statement said.
MOSCOW, October 27 (RIA Novosti)
Russia wants troop limit in new NATO states: report
http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE69Q14W20101027
Wed Oct 27, 2010 3:41am EDT
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is demanding that any new cooperation deal with NATO include limits on the number of troops posted in the alliance's new member states in central Europe, a leading Russian daily reported on Wednesday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is to attend NATO's annual summit next month in a bid to revive ties. Russia has said it wants assurances about a proposed U.S. missile shield in Europe, while NATO says it wants more cooperation on Afghanistan.
But Moscow also has demanded a ban on the deployment of "significant military forces" in the states that joined NATO since the end of the Cold War, the Kommersant daily reported, citing Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
The demand was contained in a draft Russia-NATO cooperation agreement that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov handed to NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in December, the report said.
"We want to secure a situation in which the level of predictability of military activities in countries that recently joined NATO be higher than it is now," Ryabkov was quoted as saying.
The proposal would likely spark opposition in former Eastern Bloc countries in central Europe, including Poland and the Czech Republic, which joined NATO in part as a guarantee against Russian domination.
Russia's envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin told the newspaper that Moscow wanted the troop limits as a way to make non-aggression agreements already secured on a political level legally binding.
But NATO has been cool on the proposition, in part because of the vagueness of the term "significant forces," the report said.
"Lavrov proposed we sign the legally binding agreement you are referring to. But it is difficult right now to say what will become of it," Kommersant quoted an unnamed NATO official as saying. "Countries must have the right to self defense."
NATO head Rasmussen is expected to visit Moscow before the NATO summit on November 19-20 in Lisbon, which Medvedev will attend, the report said.
(Writing by Conor Humphries; Editing by Michael Roddy)
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