PRESIDENT OF UZBEKISTAN DEMANDS TO STRENGTHEN NATIONAL DEFENCE








TASHKENT, MARCH, 2001. /RIA NOVOSTI CORRESPONDENT VALERI NIYAZMATOV/. According to President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan, it is necessary to perfect defence system and strengthen national security as there is a danger that bandit formations are ready to intrude this country. This is connected mainly with large-scale drag-trafficking and religious extremism, the president added.


	This was disclosed by the president at a session of Council  of the republic's National Security he chairs.


	The president assigned the Command of the military districts and law-enforcement bodies a task to perfect combat training of the formations and units of the Uzbekistan's Armed Forces and providing state-of-the-art equipment and materiel.