BISHKEK, October 15. /TASS/. Defense ministers from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) signed an action plan for 2027 at a meeting of the CIS Council of Defense Ministers in Kyrgyzstan’s Cholpon-Ata, the Kyrgyz Defense Ministry said in a statement.
"Following a [CIS] Defense Ministers’ Council meeting, agreed documents reflecting the results of work in 2026 and an action plan for the CIS Council of Defense Ministers for 2027 were signed," the statement reads.
Participants in the meeting also heard reports from their counterparts, including on the organization of combat training in the Belarusian Armed Forces, the organization of combat training in the Russian Army, taking the experience of the special military operation into account, the holding of exercises by the Armed Forces of Tajikistan, and the experience of taking part in UN peacekeeping missions by the Kazakh Army.
"The meeting discussed the practical use of unmanned systems and robotic complexes in solving the tasks of engineering support in present-day combat and the experience of the combat use of unmanned aerial vehicles in offensive and defensive operations," according to the statement.
Also, the meeting discussed the organization of operational and combat training for CIS troops "for the provision of collective security."
The meeting in Cholpon-Ata was attended by defense chiefs from Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan as well as CIS Secretariat officials.