CSTO's antiterrorism exercise Kobalt 2013 to go active on 11 July

12:46, 7 July 2013

MOSCOW. July 7. KAZINFORM The active phase of the antiterrorism exercise Kobalt 2013 of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will take place on 11 July. CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordiuzha, Deputy Interior Minister of Russia, chief of the Russian Interior Ministry's internal troops Nikolai Rogozhkin, and representatives of the interior ministries of CSTO member states will take part in the exercise, CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zainetdinov told BelTA.

The tactical exercise Kobalt 2013 for special operations units detached by the interior ministries of the CSTO member states to be part of the special operations forces of the CSTO collective rapid response forces is taking place in Russia's Rostov Oblast on 4-12 July. The exercise is designed to practice the application of law enforcement units and means as part of the CSTO collective rapid response forces for the sake of disarming and eradicating illegal armed units and suppressing the operation of terrorist groups.

The exercise is taking place at the training center Kadamovsky of the North Caucasus command of the Russian Interior Ministry's internal troops near the city of Novocherkassk. The exercise involves about 500 troops. As part of the exercise joint operations to suppress terrorist groups, illegal circulation of arms, explosives, and narcotics in a CSTO member state will be practiced, BelTA reports.

It is the second exercise of the kind. The first Kobalt exercise took place at the firing range Kadamovsky in Rostov Oblast in early June 2010.

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