Russian-language arms-control course in Budapest
Szöveg: LTC Péter Benei | 2015. február 1. 6:04The HDF Training and Doctrine Centre has organised an arms-control course in Russian language between 26 January and 06 February 2015. During this course, not only the Hungarian students, but also the colleagues coming from the Belgian, British, Czech, Estonian, French, Polish, German, Slovak and Spanish verification organisations have a chance to refresh their knowledge of special Russian terminology related to arms-control. Apart from the lecturers of the Centre, experts delegated by the MoD Defence Policy Department, the Kazakh and Ukrainian partner organisations, the NATO ACCS (Arms Control and Coordination Section) and the OSCE CPC (Conflict Prevention Centre) are teaching and helping them as well.
The specialty of this course lies in the fact that Hungary had organised a similar course in Russian language − following a nearly ten-year long hiatus − in 2014, which was a huge success among the participants. The importance of this event is that about half of the inspections led by NATO member countries are conducted on the territories of the successor states of the former Soviet Union, where the Russian language skills are indispensable.
During the two week long course the participants receive presentations on the history of conventional arms control, on the main treaties (the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe – CFE Treaty; the 2011 Vienna Document of Confidence- and Security Building Measures − CSBM/VD 2011; the Treaty on Open Skies – OS Treaty), on the current situation of the Hungarian arms-control, on the arms-control related planning and implementation coordination process of NATO, on the Central-Asian aspects of the implementation of this special field by the Kazakh expert, and on the bilateral agreements based on the Vienna Document by the Ukrainian expert. Following the theoretical lectures the participants will carry out inspections at the Hungarian Defence Forces’ units.
The venue for this course’s theoretical part is the Hotel Hadik in Budapest. Apart from being an excellent facility for the presentations, the accommodation and catering for the guests is arranged here as well at a very high standard and to the utmost satisfaction of the foreign experts coming to our country.
Photos by WO1 Bernadett Varga
