ASTANA. Nov 19 (Interfax-AVN) - Major General Bolat Sembinov, Kazakh Deputy Defense Minister, discussed progress in implementation of the five-year bilateral military cooperation plan during his recent trip to the U.S.
Sembinov met with Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State, Mira Ricardel, Assistant Secretary of Defense, and James McDougall, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, the Kyrgyz Defense Ministry said in a press release circulated on Friday.
"The meetings addressed implementation of the five-year plan, in particular, the Foreign Military Funding Program and the International Military Training Program," the release reads.
The parties touched upon cooperation in the framework of the Cooperative Threat Reduction program and interaction in combating terrorism. Serious attention was also paid to developments in Iraq and Afghanistan, in particular, maintenance of security of the Kazakh military contingent in Iraq.
Sembinov traveled to the U.S. National Defense University and to a U.S. Air Force base, where he was briefed on technical capabilities of C-130 military transport planes. Some of these planes will be supplied for the Kazakh Air Force.
The five-year cooperation plan between the U.S. Department of Defense and Kazakh Defense Ministry was signed in September 2003.