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Yerevan to host CSTO Parliamentary Assembly meeting.
MOSCOW, May 31 (Itar-Tass) - A draft European security treaty will be
one of the main topics at a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) that will open in Yerevan,
Armenia, on Monday.
Boris Gryzlov, the Russian State Duma speaker and the chairman of the
CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, will head the Russian delegation.
Harmonization of the national legislation related to the activities of
military contingents of the CSTO member countries.
Ahead of his visit to Yerevan, Gryzlov emphasized that this year would
see the 18th anniversary of the Collective Security Treaty.
"The organization has turned into a pillar of stability in the
European continent and the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly has turned into a
platform for discussing our common tasks," Gryzlov emphasized.
Armenian President Serge Sargsyan, Parliamentary Speaker Onik Abramyan
and Defence Minister Seiran Oganyan will receive the heads of parliaments
of the CSTO member states who will lay flowers to the monument to Armenia'
s state officials who died in a terrorist act on October 27, 1999.
The CSTO is a military-political union founded by the CIS states on
the basis of the CIS Collective Security Treaty signed on May 15, 1992.
Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Russia are CSTO
members.
.Medvedev & EU leaders to hold jubilee summit in southern Russia.
MOSCOW, May 31 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and EU
officials will open the 25th summit on Monday. The EU delegation will
include the EU President Herman van Rompay and the European Commission
President Jose Manuel Barroso.
This is going to be the first Russia-EU summit since the EU Lisbon
Treaty took force.
Russia and the European Union have been holding regular meetings since
1998. Before 2003 Moscow had been the main venue. However, the geography
began expanding later. In 2003, the leaders of Russia and the European
Union met in St. Petersburg, in 2006 - in Sochi, in 2007 - in Samara. In
2008, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev suggested holding talks not only
in European Russia but also in the Urals, the Siberia and the Far East so
as "to feel Russia better." In June 2008, the European guests visited
Khanty-Mansiisk and in spring 2009 they went to Khabarovsk.
The forthcoming summit will give the European leaders a chance to get
acquainted with the Don River and the southern city of Rostov-on-the Don.
.Russia to hand over recordings from TU-154 plane to Poland.
MOSCOW, May 31 (Itar-Tass) - Representatives of the Inter-State
Aviation Committee will on Monday hand over the verified copies of
recordings from the flight data recorders of the TU-154 plane of Polish
President Lech Kaczynski that crashed near Smolensk on April 10, 2010.
The parametric recorder confirmed that there had been no terrorist
act, explosion or a fire onboard at the time of the crash. The speech
recorder showed that there had been strangers in the cockpit. The voice of
one of them has been identified.
Edmund Klich, the head of the Polish governmental commission
investigating the accident, praised cooperation with the Russian side,
which, he said, had provided the Polish investigators with all the
necessary documents.
Last week, Klich officially confirmed that pilot error had caused the
Polish president's plane crash.
"They (Polish pilots) ignored all the warnings sent by the plane's
automatic system about the dangerous situation and decided to risk. Why?
This is how they were trained, " the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza
quoted Klich as saying.
Klich said that the instruments kept telling the pilots at what
altitude they were flying but they continued descending, having even
ignored a message: "the Earth is in front of you".
In another interview, Klich confirmed that General Blasik was in the
plane's cockpit at the time of the crash.
He noted, though, that the general "did not say even one word that
could have put pressure on the crew".
At the same time, he agreed that Blasik's presence could have exerted
"indirect pressure" on the pilots.
"Of course, his presence alone could have exerted pressure. I agree
with this," he said
Klich also said that on the approach to the airport the crew knew that
the plane was flying too low at less than 100 metres from the ground but
despite the thick fog deliberately continued the descent.
Information retrieved from the flight data recorder indicates that all
onboard equipment was in order, and pilots heard the orders given by the
air traffic controller who demanded that the crew stop descending and
proceed to straight and level flight.
The Tu-154 plane carrying an official Polish delegation for memorial
events at Katyn crashed near the town of Pechersk in the Smolensk region
at about 10:50 Moscow time on April 10. All 96 people aboard the plane
died, including Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife.
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