ASTANA. May 30 (Interfax) - The United States is providing assistance to Kazakhstan in building barracks and renovating its training centers for peacekeepers, the Kazakh Defense Ministry told Interfax on Tuesday.
"The American side is currently assisting the Defense Ministry in renovating the Almaty-based Partnership for Peace Training Center and constructing barracks and quarters for the Peacekeeping Operations Training Center in the Almaty region, which are used to train personnel for participating in peacekeeping operations," the ministry said in a reply to Interfax's request.
International seminars and peacekeeping drills involving servicemen from the armed forces of the former Soviet republics and other foreign countries are conducted at the premises of these training centers, the Kazakh Defense Ministry said.
At the same time, "there are no military facilities built with U.S. support in Kazakhstan," the ministry said.
As was reported earlier, Russian senators expressed concern last week that "the Pentagon has been actively investing in development of centers in Georgia and Kazakhstan."
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, for his part, said that Kazakhstan expressed willingness to show Russian experts military facilities being built with U.S. support.