Head of General Staff of Armed Forces of Kyrgyzstan takes part in CSTO Military Committee meeting

Bishkek, April 15, 2021. / Kabar /. Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Kyrgyzstan, Major General Erlis Terdikbayev, took part in the 18th meeting of the Military Committee on the development of military cooperation between the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which took place at the Patriot Expo convention and exhibition center of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Kyrgyz Republic reported. The event was held with the participation of the chiefs of Staffs of the Armed Forces of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, chief of the Joint Staff and the Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO. The members of the Military Committee got acquainted with the priority areas of the CSTO activities in the military sphere, discussed the challenges and threats to military security in the CSTO area of ​​responsibility, as well as measures for joint training of command and control bodies and formations of forces and means of the collective security system. The issues of the activities of the Crisis Response Center and the creation of a joint unit for radiation, chemical and biological protection and medical support of the CSTO were also considered during the meeting. The meeting participants heard information about the basic educational and methodological organization for the training of personnel of the CSTO peacekeeping forces of the Combined Arms Academy of the Order of Zhukov of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, as well as information on the activities of the Krasnodar Higher Military School as a basic educational and methodological organization for training military personnel for the CSTO in specialties in the field information security.