Below is a summary of the main military-related events in Russia, the CIS and neighboring countries on December 23, 2005
* Colonel General Mikhael Arutyunyan, first deputy defense minister of Armenia, said his country was not planning to revise an agreement on the Russian 102nd military base on its territory
* Chairman of the Federation Council committee for defense and security Viktor Ozerov said Russia's upper house of parliament would consider the president's proposal to send a Russian military contingent on a UN peacekeeping mission to Sudan until late March 2006
* The Russian government approved the signing of an agreement with France on cooperation in the destruction of stockpiles of chemical weapons in Russia
* The last batch of chemical agents leftover from the 1940s was reprocessed at a plant in the village of Gorny in the Saratov Region
* Head of the State Duma committee on defense Viktor Zavarzin said more than 160,000 military families in Russia needed housing
* The Georgian Defense Ministry said a battalion of Georgian peacekeepers was expected to return from Iraq Saturday morning
