NATO TRAINING OFFICERS, DIPLOMATS FOR UKRAINE, GEORGIA, BALTIC COUNTRIES
Interfax News Agency
June 9 2008
Russia
Officers from Ukraine, Georgia and the Baltic countries are undergoing
training in military science and diplomacy at NATO’s leading
training center, the Defense College, the college’s commandant,
Lt. Gen. Wolf-Dieter Loeser, told Interfax-AVN on Monday.
The Defense College trains officers from Eastern Europe, including
the Baltic members of NATO, and also Georgia and Ukraine, he said. An
Armenian female student who works in the president’s office is also
undergoing training at the Defense College, he added.
The general said that the level of professional training demonstrated
by representatives of former Soviet republics is up to NATO
standards. Their level of training is no lower than that of students
from other countries, Loeser said. The lesser the country’s experience
in dealing with NATO, the more scrupulous it is in choosing the
candidates to undergo training at the Defense College, he also said.
Well-trained people with good career prospects are selected, he said.
All graduates go on to have successful careers, he added.
The general cited as an example a Ukrainian colonel who was appointed
Ukraine’s military attache to Britain after graduating from the
Defense College.
The defense College trains both officers and diplomats, and training is
provided in a wide spectrum of subjects, including military sciences,
economics, politics and modern know-how.