CIS defense ministers to discuss military cooperation in Baku

According to RIA Novosti, 21 items on the meeting's agenda include implementation of the Concept for CIS military cooperation to 2010, the activities of CIS Collective Peacekeeping Forces in the conflict zone in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, and a joint action plan for operative training in the CIS armed forces for 2007.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov arrived in Baku on May 30 and met with his Ukrainian counterpart Anatoliy Hrytsenko. A source in the Russian delegation said Russia had prepared a draft agreement on joint inspection of Russia's Black Sea Fleet bases in Ukraine that will be signed during the meeting.