MOSCOW, December 4 (AVN) - An international forum on social protection of former servicemen and law-enforcers will take place at Moscow's All-Russian Exhibition Centre on December 13 to 15, forum organisers told the Military News Agency on Monday.
The forum is sponsored by the government committee on servicemen's social problems, Defence Ministry, Interior Ministry and Moscow government. The organisation committee is headed by Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matviyenko.
The forum's main purpose is to work out recommendations on social adaptation of officers and warrants which are to be transferred to reserve due to the Armed Forces reduction. In the framework of the forum, the participants plan to discuss the draft federal aid programme on decommissioned officers social adaptation for 2002-2005 and concept of law-enforcers social security.
The participants will also share their experiences in "military personnel conversion," decommissioned officers involvement in small and medium-size business, provision of support to military service invalids and members of dead servicemen's families.
As many as 400 organisations and agencies are expected to take part in the forum. It features show-benches of servicemen retraining centres, employment agencies from various Russian regions, enterprises manned or founded by former officers, companies subordinate to the Defence Ministry, Emergency Ministry, Interior Ministry, and enterprises from abroad. A jobs fair will work for three days.
More than RUR27m (USD968,300) are expected to be spent on the federal aid programme. More than half of the servicemen which are to be decommissioned and more than one forth of already decommissioned ones are supposed to go through the retraining.