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2011: Data and Reviewsmilitary and technical aid and equipping border troops are also important, shenoted.Following a meeting with senior officials in the Kyrgyz Defence Ministry theparties evaluated the results of Kyrgyzstan’s military and technical cooperationwith CSTO countries during the tragic events in the summer of 2010, discussedthe prospects of further cooperation within the CSTO, and exchanged opinionson the current social and political situation in Kyrgyzstan. Bordyuzha saidthe purpose of his visit was to study Kyrgyzstan’s newly established systemof governance and discuss a number of procedural issues with members ofKyrgyzstan’s government and the Prime Minister.The CSTO delegation has suggested setting up a committee of chiefs of generalstaff and chiefs of armed service staff of the CSTO member states’ armedforces. A special Central Asian military grouping may be created to strengthencollective security. The multilateral grouping will comprise the Collective RapidDeployment Forces (CRDF) and CRRF, as well as national military formationsand troop units.According to the CSTO Secretary General, the time is right to consider acoalition air defence force, as part of a Joint Air Defence System, headquarteredin one of the region’s states.Joint Air Defence SystemApril 14, 2011www.dkb.gov.ruKyiv hosted a meeting of the CIS Air Defence Coordination Committee of theCIS Defence Ministers’ Council to harmonise draft interstate agreements onestablishing regional air defence systems in the Caucasus and Central Asianregions. Russia’s Defence Ministry did not specify a date for the possible signingof the agreements.UkraineRussian Defence Ministry plans to buy ANTONOV AN-70April 19, 2011Expert OnlineOn April 17-19, 2011 Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov met withhis counterpart Mikhail Yezhel in Ukraine. The sides discussed military andtechnical cooperation between Russia and Ukraine and visited several militaryenterprises and military facilities in Crimea. The Defence Ministers met withUkrainian President Viktor Yanukovich to discuss Russian-Ukrainian militaryrelations.290 EDB Eurasian Integration Yearbook 2012