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Kazakh Defense Ministry Denies Information About Opening of NATO Center in Almaty

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Kazakh servicemen attend the opening ceremony of the Zapad-2021 joint military exercise at the Obuz-Lesnovsky training ground, Belarus - Sputnik International, 1920, 25.10.2023
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ALMATY (Sputnik) - The Kazakh Defense Ministry denied on Wednesday reports that the NATO Peacekeeping Operations Center opened in Almaty.
Social media in Kazakhstan reported on Tuesday that a NATO center opened in the country.

"On October 23, 2023, the official opening of the new conference hall of the peacekeeping operations center of the Kazakh Ministry of Defense took place in Almaty with the participation of US Ambassador to Kazakhstan Daniel Roseblum. The center has been operating since 2006 as an educational institution designed to develop the peacekeeping component of the Kazakh armed forces," the ministry said in a statement.

Servicemen take part in the Rubezh-2021 joint military drills by the Collective Rapid Response Forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) member states, a military alliance led by Moscow, at the Edelweiss training area in Balykchi, some 200 km from Bishkek, on September 9, 2021.  - Sputnik International, 1920, 25.09.2023
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The ministry clarified that the center is a supplementary education establishment of the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan, and its main purpose is "language teaching and training of military, police, and civilian personnel to participate in peacekeeping operations under UN standards," the statement emphasized. The establishment also provides instruction in the basics of international humanitarian law and the legal framework for peacekeeping activities, it added.
The ministry stressed that the center is a member of the International Association of Peacekeeping Training Centers (IAPTC).
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