India to train Kyrgyz armed forces in UN peace-keeping ops

Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Jul 5 (PTI) Giving a fillip to
bilateral defence ties, India will send a special team to
Kyrgyzstan soon to train the central Asian country's armed
forces in UN peace-keeping operations and impart English
language skills to them.
The decision to send the Indian team to Kyrgyzstan by the
end of this month was taken during talks between visiting
Defence Minister A K Antony and his Kyrgyz counterpart Major
General Abibilla Kudayberdiev.
Antony, who is on a two-day visit to Kyrgyzstan, also met
President Roza Otunbaeva.
"India will be sending a team to train Kyrgyz Armed
Forces in UN peace-keeping operations and impart English
language skills. The team will be arriving in Kyrgyzstan by
the end of this month itself," Defence Ministry spokesperson
Sitanshu Kar said after the talks between the two sides.
During his meeting with Kudayberdiev, Antony discussed
the present level of Indo-Kyrgyz defence engagement and said
there is potential for mutually enhancing the scope and scale
of activities, particularly in the field of military training,
defence research and development and production of defence
armaments.
"India has a wide network of research establishments not
only in armaments but also in physiology, medicine, animal
husbandry, nutrition etc under defence establishments," Antony
said.
He also offered New Delhi's assistance to Bishkek in
undertaking joint research and production in non-military
sectors.