Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will conduct the Rubezh-2006 joint maneuvers, involving land, sea and air units, at the Caspian Sea coast on August 24-29.
Major General Sergei Chuvakin said Russia would deploy up to 1,000 combat and support personnel, aircraft, three gun boats, two landing craft and four support ships.
Uzbekistan will attend the exercises as an observer, the general said.
The CSTO was founded on October 7, 2002 by Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan to ensure peace, preserve the territorial integrity of member countries, coordinate activities in the fight against international terrorism, drug trafficking, and organized international crime, and provide immediate military assistance to a CSTO member in the event of a military threat.
The CSTO has previously held Rubezh anti-terrorist exercises in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
