October 15, RA President Serzh Sargsyan will visit Kazakhstan to watch the final stage of the “Cooperation- 2009” maneuvers jointly with CSTO members at the Matibulak training range near Amity. Regional Command “South” troops and CRRF CSTO had a final training before the maneuvers.

Fourteen thousand servicemen, 90 air crafts and helicopters, 100 combat vehicles will participate in the military exercises.

Cooperation-2009 maneuvers are a third stage of a large-scale operability test of armed forces of CSTO members.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev left for a 2-day working visit to Kazakhstan.