Unbreakable Brotherhood 2024 CSTO command post exercise kicks off in Kazakhstan
01.10.2024
Today, a solemn ceremony to open an active phase of the Unbreakable Brotherhood 2024 command post exercise involving the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces was held at the Bereg training ground in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Lieutenant General Sultan Kamaletdinov the First Deputy Minister of Defence - Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan said that: 'The world situation remains tense and we need to be prepared for various challenges and threats that affect not only our countries but the entire world community.
Thanks to the far-sighted and wise policies of the presidents of our states and the heads of our defence ministries, the cooperation of the CSTO member states is dynamic and stable and in line with the goals set.
We attach great importance to cooperation issues in joint command and control training.
We have important tasks ahead of us to improve the military component of the Organisation and to build up the capabilities to comprehensively develop and ensure the security of the CSTO member states.
Each year, the CSTO carries out joint operational and combat training activities, including the Unbreakable Brotherhood exercise.
This year, for the first time, Kazakhstan independently sent a peacekeeping contingent to the UN mission in the Golan Heights to help maintain a ceasefire between the warring parties.
The experience acquired is being reviewed and introduced into the combat training programmes of the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan. We took it into account when developing the concept of our Unbreakable Brotherhood joint exercise.
Our aim is not only to show national peacekeepers in their best light, but also to improve coherence of units in preparing and conducting a peacekeeping operation by the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces.
Kazakhstan has declared the development of the peacekeeping potential of the CSTO to be one of the priorities of its chairmanship of the organisation this year'.
Speaking to those involved in the exercise, CSTO Deputy Secretary General Taalatbek Masadykov said: 'The exercise is being held amid a difficult international situation. The territory of Central Asia has traditionally been a focus of attention for the global military-political players in the emerging world order. The region's great logistical capabilities combined with the availability of natural resources create the conditions for continued superpower competition and political instability, including the spread of radical extremism and the growing terrorist threat.
Heads of CSTO member states take the necessary measures to build up the forces and means of the collective security system to counter the entire range of modern challenges and threats and to improve the mechanism for their use.
The CSTO peacekeeping forces, being an integral part of the Troops (Collective Forces) must be constantly ready to conduct peacekeeping operations in accordance with the decisions of the CSTO Collective Security Council, both on the territory of the Organisation's member States and beyond its borders under the UN mandate. I would like to point out that the peacekeeping contingent from the Republic of Kazakhstan is currently successfully carrying out a peacekeeping mission as part of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force in the Golan Heights.
I am confident that the exercise will be conducted at a high organisational and methodical standard and that its results will be used to improve the mechanism for making and implementing decisions on the use of the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the exercise, Lieutenant General Hasan Kaloyev, First Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, said: 'Today the CSTO Unbreakable Brotherhood 2024 command post exercise begins. It is aimed at practising post-conflict settlement issues.
The development of peacekeeping capabilities is one of the priorities announced for Kazakhstan's chairmanship of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation in 2024.
A special feature of the upcoming exercise is that apart from military formations, units of law enforcement agencies, police, internal affairs forces, and National Guard troops, security agencies, and agencies responsible for disaster relief will be involved in joint operations.
The main objective of the exercise is to improve the coherence of peacekeeping contingents to perform their tasks in an active, skilful, and decisive manner in a joint operation.
The exercise involves national contingents of the peacekeeping forces of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan, as well as the operational groups of the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat. In total, the exercise involves more than 2,000 troops, 500 units of armoured and motor vehicles, Mi-17 and Mi-35 helicopters, Il-76 and C-295 aircraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles.
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