MOSCOW. April 4 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Tuesday that the Defense Ministry will use the experience of junior officers while working out measures aimed at strengthening law, order and discipline in military units.
"We are on the eve of a very important event - the second all-army conference of officers. This meeting will help us work out efficient measures aimed at strengthening law, order and discipline in the army," Ivanov said at a meeting with the conference's participants in Moscow.
"Because it is you who spend all your time from reveille to retreat together with enlisted men, our meeting will make it possible to adjust our watches, so to say, and work out common solutions," he stressed.
"You represent all the region from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka, and this broad range shows that the Defense Ministry will take into account the interests and experience of servicemen of the entire Armed Forces," he noted.
Ivanov stressed that combat training in the Russian army is progressing well, but "there are many problems with law, order and discipline."
"I would like to hear your considerations based on personal experience," he said.
The meeting, which involves 18 officers holding the ranks from lieutenant to lieutenant colonel, proceeded behind closed doors. It is taking place in Ivanov's office in the Russian Defense Ministry headquarters.