MOSCOW, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Georgia Wednesday formally withdrew from an air defense treaty signed by post-Soviet states, Interfax news agency quoted a statement of the Georgian Foreign Ministry assaying.

    The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Treaty on Cooperation in Air Defense, inked in 1995 by Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine, was designed to create a joint air-defense system.

    Georgia informed Russia earlier this month about its decision to withdraw from the pact, amid tensions between Tbilisi and Moscow.