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GARRISON CHEBARKUL (Chelyabinsk region), August 11 (Itar-Tass) - Military personnel and hardware of the Airborne Troops of Russia and China will not be airdropped during the Peace Mission 2007 exercise of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) that was launched at the Chebarkul range outside Chelyabinsk on Saturday at the request of the Chinese side, Russian AF Deputy Commander-in-Chief and deputy head of the manoeuvres on the Russian side Major-General Oleg Kolyala told Itar-Tass.
Chinese officials motivated their request by the necessity of the exercise's additional practicing and dress rehearsal that will be conducted on August 13, said Kolyala.
The official also said that the first joint training of the military contingents of Russia, China and Kazakhstan held on August 6 showed that "we have certain problems regarding target approach by China's army aviation and striking to destroy the enemy."
"Meetings of the two countries' Air Force and army aviation officials held after that give reasons to say now that we have reached mutual understanding not only on the ground, but also in the air and that the tasks set before us, including intelligence ones, on delivering strikes to destroy the enemy on the ground will be totally fulfilled," the deputy head of the manoeuvres pointed out.
Meanwhile, head of the manoeuvres from the Russian side Colonel-General Vladimir Moltenskoi said at the opening ceremony of the command-staff part of the exercise on Saturday that Peace Mission 2007 should show to the whole world that the SCO is capable of "independently counteracting" the challenges and threats existing in the region,
Military servicemen of SCO countries in the preparation of Peace Mission 2007 have gained huge experience, which will allow them not only to conduct the manoeuvres successfully, but also "to hold analogous events in the future," General Moltenskoi pointed out. According to the official, "The manoeuvres have evoked wide-scale response not only in our countries, but also in all corners of the world, the attention of all world media is drawn to them." He expressed confidence that the manoeuvres will become a new step in the sphere of the training of armed forces of SCO member states "for joint combating the threats of terrorism, separatism and religious extremism existing in the region."
General Moltenskoi stressed that the exercise participants "should demonstrate that the SCO and armed forces of its countries have all possibilities for ensuring stability and security in the region."
The official stressed, "Succeeding in conducting the manoeuvres, we should further increase the authority of the SCO, armed forces of its countries and our nations."
The antiterrorist command-staff manoeuvres of member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation involve about 6,000 servicemen of the armies of Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as over 1,000 military equipment units.
The exercise opening ceremony was held at the Chebarkul military range in the morning at which the troops participating in the manoeuvres were briefed and given the operation directive to hold the exercise. The directive was signed on Thursday by the Chiefs of the General Staffs of SCO member states in the Chinese city of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The first joint training session, in which about 4,000 servicemen and over 500 combat and special-purpose vehicles are taking part, followed the ceremony.
Ahead of the manoeuvres that will last until August 17, the Chiefs of the General Staff of SCO countries held military-political consultations in Urumqi.
Chief of General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Liang Guanglie said the consultations were held "in a cordial and friendly atmosphere." "We exchanged vies on problems of international and regional security, issues of military cooperation and the Peace Mission 2007 exercise," he said. "The parties reached broad mutual understanding on all the matters discussed," according to the Chinese official.
According to Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces General Yuri Baluyevsky, the Peace Mission 2007 manoeuvres mean a specific step in the sphere of the training of armed forces of SCO member states for joint countering threats to security existing in the region. Along with terrorism, extremism, drug aggression, organised crime and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Baluyevsky also mentioned problems related to ensuring security "in the conditions of growing pressure of mass media of certain Western states." "These states continue to make attempts to convince our nations of the necessity of the formation of the so-called 'true democratic' institutions of state and public management after the fashion of the West, which causes destabilisation of the situation in the states of the region," said the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
The first such manoeuvres of SCO member countries were conducted in China in 2005.
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