The system is being created in order to increase the effectiveness of solving air defense tasks in the region
MOSCOW, December 16. /tass/. The State Duma on Thursday ratified an agreement between Russia and Tajikistan on the creation of a joint air defense system.
According to the document, the parties are creating a joint regional air defense system, which is an integral part of the joint air defense system of the CIS member states. This is done in order to increase the effectiveness of solving air defense tasks in the region.
Taking into account the disunity of the territories of the two countries, the parties to the agreement will allocate a separate collective security area within the territory and airspace of Tajikistan as part of the region. The list of military management bodies, command posts, associations, formations and military units allocated to the joint regional air defense system is approved jointly by the Defense Ministers of the parties, if possible, to make changes to it.
The agreement states that the coordination of joint actions of the troops of the Joint Regional Air Defense System and forces from other regional air defense systems in the Central Asian region of Collective Security is carried out by the Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The overall leadership of the Russian forces as part of the air defense system is entrusted to the commander of the troops of the Central Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and the management of joint actions of the forces of the unified air defense system within the boundaries of a separate collective security area is entrusted to the Commander of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Armed Forces of Tajikistan.
The document notes that the existing procedure for financing and providing the armed forces of the parties within the framework of the joint air defense system will not change. The agreement is concluded for a period of five years. In the future, its validity is automatically extended for subsequent five-year periods.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced the creation of such an air defense system in April at talks with the head of the military department of Tajikistan. As Shoigu explained then, the parties have prepared a draft of the relevant agreement in order to increase the reliability of the protection of the state border in the airspace.
