MOSCOW. Nov 30 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia is ready to offer 44 military educational establishments for personnel training in the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
"The full list of educational establishments will be considered today, on November 30, at the session of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers in Moscow," the spokesman told Interfax-Military News Agency.
Russia is represented on the list by "the Military University, nearly all military academies, and about 30 military colleges and institutes who train specialists in nearly the entire range of military professions," he said.
The spokesman recalled that the agreement on joint preferential training of military personnel was signed by presidents of the CSTO members states in June this year. Under the document, each country offers some of its higher educational establishments for joint training of military personnel.
The CSTO brings together Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.