BISHKEK, November 24 (AVN) -- Kyrgyz Defence Minister Esen Topoyev told the Military News Agency that the government soon to decide on organising combined arms school.
At present Kyrgyzstan has only one military school.
After the Soviet Union collapsed Bishkek organised and aviation school (on the basis of the USSR training centre that prepared specialists for foreign armies) for Middle Asia CIS countries.
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan decided to train military pilots in Russia.
Nowadays only 300 Kyrgyz men study aviation technique in Bishkek; army does not need these specialists. Thus Defence Ministry decided to re-orient the school and invite professors from Russia and Uzbekistan to teach there.
Nowadays future Kyrgyz officers study in Russia (90 percent), Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.