MOSCOW. Sept 10 (Interfax-AVN) - The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) held a command post drill in Central Asian crisis resolution at the Crisis Response Center, CSTO spokesman Vladimir Zainetdinov said.
"The CSTO Crisis Response Center hosted a strategic command post practice led by Chief of Joint Staffs Col. Gen. Anatoly Sidorov, which involved practicing politico-diplomatic, military and other joint measures to settle a crisis in the Central Asian region in a simulated military-political situation," Zainetdinov said.
The first stage involved a set of measures aimed at military conflict prevention, organizing deployment of the Collective Rapid Reaction Force and repelling an aggression against a mock CSTO member state.
"Under the terms of the second stage, the CSTO, with a mandate from the UN Security Council, organized and carried out a peacekeeping operation in a non-member state," Zainetdinov said.
Officials from the Center's functional groups and operational groups from concerned ministries and agencies from the member states spent two days working on proposals to normalize the situation and deploy collective security troops and equipment to resolve the "crisis," the spokesman said. All the proposals were laid down in draft relevant resolutions of the CSTO bodies.
Summing up the results of the drill, Sidorov said that the proposals on forming, re-grouping and deploying collective security troops and equipment took into account real existing threats in the region.
"The contingents of the CSTO's Collective Rapid Reaction Force and collective peacekeeping forces, which are being sent as part of training to accomplish missions, included forces and equipment from all CSTO members," Sidorov said.
The participants successfully accomplished missions and practiced the whole set of measures in prompt organization of military and military-technical assistance for crisis resolution, the general said.
The exercise is the first stage of the CSTO's main event of joint operational and combat training, Combat Brotherhood 2018.