On September 16-21 this year, large-scale strategic command and staff exercise “Center-2019” will be held.
The military contingents of seven countries will participate in these exercises – Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
“At the first stage of the training at the Gurumsaray military training camp in the Namangan region, the military servicemen of the ministries of defense of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan will work out the issues of joint peacekeeping and security in the Central Asian region, demonstrating the readiness of the Armed Forces to protect national interests,” the Defense Ministry of Uzbekistan said.
The exercises, which will last for five days, include participation of servicemen of the military command bodies and several units of the Uzbek Defense Ministry and about two hundred servicemen of the Tajik Armed Forces.
During the exercises, military contingents, in the conditions created for the exercise of the conditional military-political situation, will be working out the issues of command and control in the fight against international terrorism, repelling air attacks, conducting reconnaissance-search and defensive action.
At the second stage of the exercises, the military contingents of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan will continue joint actions at the Donguz military training camp of the Orenburg region, Russian Federation.
Earlier, military servicemen of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan participated in joint exercises held on September 18-22, 2018 at the Chorrukh-Dayron training center and at the Nurafshon military training camp of Tajikistan.
