MOSCOW. Dec 19 (Interfax-AVN) - The CIS military cooperation coordination headquarters has hosted a military business game that aims to practice making a decision on the beginning of a complex peacekeeping operation, a spokesman for the headquarters said on Wednesday.
The game was part of the training session involving officials of general staffs of the CIS member nations, the spokesman told Interfax-Military News Agency.
Participants in the game practiced the measures that the Collective Peacekeeping Forces should take to prevent escalation of a conflict between central authorities and nationalist extremist formations of a maneuver nation. The participants acting as officials of the forces' unified command elaborated the concept of the operation and the decision on its beginning and practiced its thorough support.
Chief of the headquarters Army General Vladimir Yakovlev supervising the training session said "the military business game helped establish the main methods of increasing efficiency of peacekeeping contingents' application in the interests of ethnic conflicts settlement."
Participants in the training session attended the Russian Interior Ministry's training center on Wednesday to be briefed on its experience in recruitment and training of law-enforcers for participation in peacekeeping operations.
The training session will be completed on Friday.