Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- On 13-15 June, combat training events were held in the Kyrgyz Republic in the format of the Commonwealth of Independent States. This was reported by the press service of the CIS Executive Committee.

On 13 June, the Combat Training Center of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic hosted a meeting of the Coordinating Committee on Field Training under the Council of Ministers of Defense of the CIS Member States.

Representatives of the ministries of defense of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Secretariat of the CIS Council of Defense took part in the meeting of the Coordinating Committee.

On behalf of the Council of Ministers of Defense of the CIS Member States, Secretary of the CIS Council of Defense Major-General Yuri Dashkin delivered a welcoming speech. Addressing the meeting participants, he gave a brief analysis of the military-political situation in the world, noting the expansion of the spectrum of military threats against the Commonwealth states, and emphasized the growing requirements for the combat readiness of national armed forces and the level of professional training of military personnel.

He also emphasized that, thanks to the efforts of the Coordinating Committee for Field Training, the level of organization of joint combat training events, including those of a competitive nature, is being increased from year to year, new facilities of the training and material base are being updated, and often created new facilities that meet modern requirements.

Opening the meeting, Colonel-General Ivan Buvaltsev, Chairman of the Coordinating Committee, summed up the results of five years of work, spoke about the results achieved during this time of the profile interaction of combat training bodies of the Commonwealth countries and promising areas for further cooperation.

During the meeting, the heads of combat training bodies analyzed the current state and development trends of national combat training systems, exchanged experience in joint training of units of the armed forces, experience in training unmanned aircraft specialists, and also touched upon the issues of international humanitarian law in the context of training troops (forces).

Informative reports were made by Colonel Kumarbek Kalmataev, Head of the Main Combat Training Department of the Ministry of Defense of the Kyrgyz Republic, Colonel Anatoly Dovganyuk, Head of the Combat Training Department - Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Major General Alexander Bas, Head of the Main Combat Training Department of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus Inspector of the Unmanned Aviation Control Department of the Air Force Command of the High Command of the Aerospace Forces Lieutenant Colonel Yevgeny Kozhin.

Great professional interest and a lively discussion among the participants of the meeting was caused by the report of the Deputy Head of the Department - Head of the Planning Department of the Main Directorate of Combat Training of the Ministry of Defense of the Kyrgyz Republic, Colonel Kyyalbek Zhekshen on the training of junior specialists for operations in mountainous conditions.

The methodology for organizing and conducting mountain training classes became a key topic for the subsequent practical work of the members of the Coordinating Committee, which took place on June 14 at the training center of the 8th Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic named after Hero of the Soviet Union, Major General I.V. Panfilov.

In the course of joint work at the Edelweiss training ground, the heads of the combat training bodies agreed to hold commander’s training camps on the organization of the educational process, joint training and methodological training camps for unit commanders on organizing and conducting exercises in mountainous conditions, as well as a set of demonstrative practical exercises for specialists from military branches and special forces of the armed forces.

A good start for the development of the practice of such events was the holding on the basis of a separate special-purpose brigade "Scorpion" of a demonstrative tactical-special anti-terrorist lesson. This is the first lesson in the activities of the Coordinating Committee, held at night.

Despite the busy work schedule of the Coordinating Committee, the military delegations of the Commonwealth countries visited the world-famous house-museum of Chingiz Aitmatov and the Rukh-Ordo cultural and historical heritage center.

Following the tradition established in the format of the Council of Ministers of Defense, the members of the Coordinating Committee in a single formation paid tribute to the soldiers who defended our common Motherland from the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, and laid wreaths at the monument to the Hero of the Soviet Union, Major General Ivan Panfilov.

The next meeting of the Coordinating Committee on Field Training under the Council of Ministers of Defense of the CIS member states is planned for 2024 in the Republic of Tajikistan.