DUSHANBE, September 25, 2012, Asia-Plus — A group of officers from the General Staff of Tajikistan’s Armed Forces, led by Colonel Tohir Khairulloyev, the chief of Staff of the Mobile troops of the Ministry of Defense (MoD), will participate in a joint drill for peacekeeping forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) that will be conducted at Kazakhstan’s Iliyskiy, Shoshkala, and Bereg training grounds, Faridoun Mahmadaliyev, a spokesman for the Tajik Ministry of Defense, said.
The war games, dubbed “Indestructible brotherhood 2012,” will kick off on October 8 and will run until October 17. The main purpose of the exercise is to rehearse coordination and interaction in missions connected with separating conflicting sides, providing observance of terms of cease-fire regime, convoying humanitarian cargo and repulsing terrorist attacks on convoys.
The exercise participants will also share their experiences in preventing illegal delivery of materiel, weapons and explosives to a zone of conflict, guarding vital facilities, and preventing mass disorders, the source stressed.
Meanwhile Itar-Tass quoted Colonel Nikolay Donyushkin from Russia’s Armed forces as saying that the war games will involve more than 1,000 personnel from Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. Colonel also noted that a week before the exercises CSTO peacekeeping forces will organize a leading coordinative center.
We will recall that a joint military exercises for the CSTO forces were conducted at the Marshal Baghramian training ground in Armenia from September 15 to September 19. The war games, involved about 2,000 troops from six CSTO countries: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.
