RUSSIA: DEFENSE MINISTER CALLS FOR DEVELOPING JOINT EUROPEAN MILITARY POLICY
During a 25 May meeting of the defense ministers of Russia and the Nordic countries in St. Petersburg, Sergei Ivanov
urged the development of a pan-European joint military policy, "Izvestiya" reported on 27 May. In his report
to the conference, Ivanov said that such a policy should be based on concrete "bricks" such as joint
peacekeeping missions, military exercises, and coordinated environmental protection. Ivanov also informed his colleagues
that on 21-25 June, Russia will conduct a major troop-deployment drill, in which it will use 50 military transport
planes to move an 800-man motorized-infantry regiment and all its equipment from western Russia to Siberia. RC Copyright
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