MOSCOW. Jan 22 (Interfax-AVN) - A planned operational training session will start at the CIS military cooperation coordination headquarters in Moscow on Tuesday, Major General Yevgeny Nikoforov, spokesman for the headquarters, told Interfax- Military News Agency.
The session will be led by chief of the headquarters Army General Vladimir Yakovlev, the spokesman said. It will involve chiefs and deputy chiefs of staff, as well as heads of main operations department of the Armed Forces of the nations forming part of the CIS, officials of the CIS Executive Committee and the Secretariat of the Collective Security Council of the nations signatories to the Collective Security Treaty.
According to Nikiforov, the main aim of the four-day session is to sum up the theory and practice of military cooperation between the CIS nations in the past 10 years, perfection of the cooperation's forms and methods.
Yakovlev is expected to address the session participants on the first day. Besides, the session will feature a round-table discussion devoted to coordination of thorough interaction between the CIS bodies combating terrorism and extremism. A command post training that involves Major General Sergei Chernomordin, commander of the collective rapid-deployment force in Central Asia, will take place in the framework of the session, too.
The agenda of the session envisages a series of other events that aim to scale up military cooperation within the CIS, elaborate coordinated approaches to other issues of interest for strengthening and development of military cooperation between the CIS nations.