Azeri Army drills follow Armenia-based CSTO exercises
BAKU. Sept 20 (Interfax) - Azerbaijan's Land Forces, Air Force and Navy are holding large-scale exercises, an Azeri Defense Ministry spokesman said.
Defense Minister Col. Gen. Safar Abiyev is supervising the maneuvers.
Units of the Collective Operational Reaction Force (CORF) of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) held the Cooperation-2012 exercises at an Armenian site on Wednesday to respond to an imaginary adversary's aggression in the Caucasus. More than 2,500 soldiers from Russia, Armenia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, including units of the Interior Ministry and the Emergency Situations Ministry, took part in them.
The 98th Airborne Division, based in Ivanovo outside Moscow, and the 102nd Russian military base, located in Gyumri, Armenia, contributed over 300 servicemen to the maneuvers.
