(ForUm) - During a working meeting in Brest, Belarus, which is hosting a regular sitting of the CIS Council of Defense Ministers, Ukrainian and Belarussian Defense Ministers Anatoliy Hrytsenko and Leonid Maltsev signed an interagency agreement on creating the system of information exchange and a bipartite cooperation plan for 2007, Cabinet press office reported.
The agreement provides for 16 joint events in Ukraine and 15 in Belarus, bipartite consultations into defense-related issues, official visits by the two countries' Defense Ministers and commanders, exchange of language teachers and peacekeeping courses, organization and holding joint exercises and working meetings in the sphere of military education, reports Trend.