Members of the "Collective Security Treaty Organization"; seven former soviet countries agreed to establish a "rapid reaction force".
Leaders of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan agreed to establish a mutual military force which will base in Russia, against extarnal threats, in the meeting in Moscow.
Russian President Dimitriy Medvedev declared that Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan agreed for establishing "rapid reaction force" after the meeting in Moscow. Medvedev said that all of the leaders were sharing the opinion that there was a need for establishing such force. He did not give detail about the structure of planned military force.
Russia, U.S. and China struggles to increase their influence on Middle Asian states since Middle Asia has the richest natural sources of the World.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin approach to the American military existence in Middle Asia favourable after 11 September 2001, but the existence of American military in the region in long time basis disturbed Moscow.
Russia had established two military basis in Kyrgyzstan in 2003 and 2005.
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