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PIMS is people-centric and strives to increase participant interaction and interoperability so that the community can cooperate fully on priority areas such as defense reform, coalition interoperability, peace support operations, and the global war on terrorism.

Training center for Kyrgyz troops to be built in the south of Kyrgyzstan

The United States intends to build an anti-terror training center in the southern Kyrgyz province of Batken. The exact location of the facility, which is projected to cost $500,000, has not yet been determined.

In a statement emailed to Reuters, the US embassy stressed the facility would be completed at Kyrgyzstan's request. "The US does not have and is not seeking to obtain a base in southern Kyrgyzstan," it said. "This counter-terrorism training centre is part of broader US-Kyrgyz security cooperation.

"The counter-terrorism training centre will belong to the government of the Kyrgyz Republic and will be used for the training of Kyrgyz defence and security personnel."


NATO pleased with realization of Armenian IPAP

NATO expertise team arrived in Armenia February 15-19 on a working visit for assessing the 2009 Armenia-NATO Individual Partnership Action Plan Program. The NATO expertise team consisted of representatives of NATO's Defense Policy Planning, Public diplomacy, International Military staff.

 According to the news service for the Armenian Foreign Ministry,a group of the Alliance experts was in Armenia in 2009 to assess the implementation of IPAP.


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