The Republic of Kazakhstan launched a command-staff training with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2024”

Today, in the Republic of Kazakhstan, at the training range “Bereg”, the opening ceremony of the active phase of the command-staff training with the Peacekeeping Forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) “Indestructible Brotherhood-2024” was held.

First Deputy Minister of Defense - Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan Lieutenant General Sultan Kamaletdinov, in particular, said: “The situation in the world remains turbulent, and we must be prepared for various challenges and threats relevant not only for our countries, but also for the entire world community.

Thanks to the far-sighted and wise policy of the Presidents of our states and the heads of the defense agencies, cooperation between the CSTO member states is dynamic and sustainable and is being carried out in accordance with the planned objectives.

We attach great importance to cooperation in the joint training of command and control bodies and troops.

We are facing important tasks in improving the military component of the Organization and building up capacities for the comprehensive development of the CSTO member states and ensuring their security.

Every year, joint operational and combat training activities are conducted within the CSTO, including the “Indestructible Brotherhood” training with the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces.

This year, for the first time, Kazakhstan independently deployed a peacekeeping contingent to the UN mission in the Golan Heights, carrying out tasks to maintain a ceasefire between the warring parties.

The experience gained is being analyzed and incorporated into the combat training programs of the Kazakh Armed Forces. We have also taken it into account in developing the concept of our joint training “Indestructible Brotherhood”.

The aim is not only to show the best side of the national peacekeeping contingents, but also to work out the issues of unit coherence in carrying out the tasks of preparing and conducting a peacekeeping operation by the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces.

Kazakhstan has declared the development of the CSTO's peacekeeping potential as one of the priorities of its chairmanship of the Organization this year.

I am confident that during the training the personnel of the national units of the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces will improve their field training and professionalism, gain experience in conducting peacekeeping operations, as well as the ability to coordinate the actions of multinational forces”.

Addressing the training participants, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Taalatbek Masadykov noted: “The training is taking place in a complex international environment. The territory of Central Asia has traditionally attracted the attention of global military and political actors in the emerging world order. The region's great logistical opportunities combined with its mineral resources create conditions for constant superpower rivalry and political instability, including the spread of radical extremism and the growing terrorist threat.

The heads of the CSTO member states are taking the necessary measures to build up the forces and means of the collective security system to counter the full range of contemporary challenges and threats and to improve the mechanisms for their application.

The CSTO Peacekeeping Forces, being an integral part of the Troops (Collective Forces), should be in constant readiness to carry out peacekeeping operations in accordance with the decisions of the CSTO Collective Security Council, both on the territory of the Organization's member states and beyond its borders under a United Nations mandate. I should like to note that at present a peacekeeping contingent from the Republic of Kazakhstan is successfully carrying out a peacekeeping mission as part of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force in the Golan Heights.

The forthcoming training is aimed at improving the practical skills and working methods of commanders and staff in preparing for and conducting a peacekeeping operation, enhancing the coherence of national peacekeeping contingents and raising the level of their field training.

I am confident that the training will be held at a high organizational and methodological level and that its results will be used to improve the mechanisms for adopting and implementing decisions on the use of the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces”.

At the opening ceremony of the training, Lieutenant General Khasan Kaloyev, First Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, said: “The command-staff training with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2024” aimed at practicing issues of post-conflict settlement, begins today.

The development of peacekeeping capacity is one of the priorities declared for the period of Kazakhstan's chairmanship of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in 2024.

To date, the Organization's member states have more than 25 years of experience in peacekeeping in various parts of the world.

A special feature of the forthcoming training is that, in addition to military formations, the joint action will involve units of internal affairs bodies, the police, internal troops and national guard troops, security bodies and bodies authorized to prevent and eliminate the consequences of emergency situations.

The main purpose of the training is to improve the coherence of the peacekeeping contingents for active, skillful and decisive action in carrying out their tasks in the joint operation.

In the field, the issues of regrouping and harmonization of contingents and the preparation and conduct of a peacekeeping operation by the Collective Peacekeeping Forces will have to be worked out.

On behalf of the Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff and the multinational military staff of the Headquarters, I wish you, the participants in the “Indestructible Brotherhood-2024” training, to demonstrate your best qualities: high professionalism, coherence in your work, mutual assistance and mutual support; to confirm your readiness to act to ensure the collective security of our states”.

A command-staff training “Indestructible Brotherhood-2024” is being held at the “Bereg” training ground under the charge of Major-General Almaz Dzhumakeev, commander of the Airborne Assault Troops of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, during which issues related to the preparation and conduct of a peacekeeping operation by the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces are being practiced.

National contingents of peacekeeping forces of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Russia and the Republic of Tajikistan, operational groups of the Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat are taking part in the training. In total, more than 2,000 servicemen, 500 units of armored and motorized vehicles, Mi-17 and Mi-35 helicopters, Il-76 and Si-295 airplanes, and unmanned aviation were involved in the training.

The training participants began preparations for the peacekeeping operation. At this stage of the training, issues related to the regrouping of peacekeeping contingents in the area where the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces are being formed, coordination in the area where the tasks are to be carried out and the organization of a peacekeeping operation are being practiced. The practical actions provide for the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces to carry out training and combat tasks at checkpoints and refugee reception points, while escorting convoys and cargoes and providing humanitarian assistance.

The CSTO Joint Press Center of the “Indestructible Brotherhood-2024” training, the Republic of Kazakhstan, “Bereg” training ground