#Kazakhstan švenčia 25th metis savo kariuomenės

On seventh of May 1992 the history of Kazakhstan Armed Forces began – the President of Kazakhstan Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev signed the decree “On the establishment of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan”.

It was a significant milestone in the history of independent Kazakhstan. After a quarter of a century, Kazakhstan can proudly say that defense institution is powerful, compact and one of the strongest, combat-ready, professional and well equipped. It adequately solves all the tasks set and ensures the defense security of the country.

During these years, the skill of Kazakhstan soldiers has significantly increased; the structure of the armed forces has been improved. The combat readiness of troops and their mobility are steadily increasing.

The modern Armed Forces of Kazakhstan have become a reliable stronghold of our independence and security. All combat power and training of soldiers of the Kazakh army were demonstrated in May at the Military Parade in Astana. Over the 25-year period, the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan under the leadership of the President of Kazakhstan - Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan - went through a difficult path of development. Since the independence of Kazakhstan, one of the priorities of Kazakhstan was the creation of a combat-ready army, capable of protecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country.

According to the Global Firepower ranking, the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan placed 53^rd out of 126 countries in 2016. The progress is made in the new equipment of troops with modern weapons and military equipment, professionalization of the army, and gradual strengthening of the defense industry capacity in Kazakhstan and joint projects with foreign partners.

Today Kazakhstan is participating in the construction of a new system of international and regional security. This activity is carried out within the framework of such international organizations as CICA, SCO, CSTO and NATO.

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For the CSTO this year is marked by a double anniversary. The Collective Security Treaty (CST) was signed in May 1992, but decision to establish the Organization on the basis of this Treaty was adopted 10 years later - in 2002. Thereby, the CSTO as an intergovernmental organization celebrates its 15th anniversary, and the signing of the Treaty marks the 25th anniversary.

This year also marked the 25th anniversary of Kazakhstan's military cooperation with NATO.

In 1992 Kazakhstan joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, which later, in 1997, was transformed into the Council of Euro-Atlantic Partnership.

The main goal of interaction with the Alliance in the military sphere is to achieve the interoperability of peacekeeping units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan with units of Western countries.

Kazakhstan has been conducting its direct international peacekeeping activity for more than 17 years. It began with the creation of the Kazakhstan peacekeeping battalion - Kazbat, which was formed in compliance with the Order of the Head of State of January 31, 2000, for ensuring the readiness of the Kazakh Armed Forces to act in peacekeeping operations.

All these years Kazakhstan servicemen take part in peacekeeping and security operations in various parts of the world.

In 2003, the engineering and demining unit of Kazbat participated in peacekeeping operations as part of the stabilization forces in Iraq, where the battalion destroyed more than 4 million explosive remnants and cleared 6,718 cubic meters of water.

In order to expand cooperation to achieve interoperability Kazakhstan joined the “Operational Capabilities Concept” on January 6, 2004, which created additional opportunities for Kazbat to participate in NATO exercises.

At present time, Kazakhstan consistently continues the policy of promoting its ideas of a global, non-nuclear world on the international arena.

2016 has become a historical date. Our country has been chosen a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, and the manifesto of the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev’s “Peace. XXI century” has acquired the status of an official document of the United Nations.

Cooperation with NATO and its partner education centers creates opportunities to improve professional level of peacekeeping officers.  Since 2014, Kazakhstan officers have been serving in the UN peacekeeping and security missions in Western Sahara and Côte d'Ivoire. The UN leadership positively assessed the level of training of our servicemen and organization is interested in sending more of them to the UN mission.

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