Baku, Azerbaijan, April 20
By Ali Mustafayev – Trend:
Delegation of the Kazakh Defense Ministry, headed by First Deputy Defense Minister and Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant-General Murat Maykeev, participated in the meeting of the Committee of Chiefs of Staff of the armed forces of the CIS member states, held in Kazan, the press service of the Kazakh Defense Ministry said in a message.
The participants exchanged views on the current military and political situation and analyzed the challenges and threats to military security in the CIS space, during the meeting.
The sides also approved the results of the work of the CIS Defense Ministers’ Council on the development of military cooperation in 2018 and the draft work plan for 2019, as well as issues of cooperation in the field of unmanned aviation and a unified system of state radar identification.
Kazakhstan’s armed forces ranked 50th in the annual Global Firepower Index rating, the press service of GFI said in a message.
In 2017, the country stood at 53-rd place.
From the CIS countries, Kazakhstan is below Ukraine (29th place), Uzbekistan (39th place) and Belarus (41st place). The rating includes 136 countries.