MoscowFour allies will arm Tajikistan’s Afghan border, Russian state news agency TASS reported.
Its source, Secretary General Taalatbek Masadykov, says the program does not threaten Afghanistan.
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Belarus will send equipment and armaments, the Collective Security Treaty Organization’s secretary general said.
Masadykov expects the first deliveries to Tajikistan before the end of this year.
How each outlet framed it
- TASS
- presents CSTO arms deliveries to Tajikistan as defensive, with Masadykov insisting the border program does not threaten Afghanistan
Sources: TASS