Russian-language arms-control course in Budapest

The specialty of this course lies in the fact that Hungary had organised a similar course in Russian language in 2004 for the last time. The importance of this event is that, 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 one week long course the participants received 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, and on the Central-Asian aspects of the implementation of this special field by the Kazakh expert.