Arms Control Issues

On 5 September, a training course on implementation of international arms control treaties for representatives of verification centres of OSCE member states was finished.

The course was held at the National Agency for the Control and Inspection, Defence Ministry department, and involved 17 representatives from verification centres of 12 countries (Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, the UK and US).

The course attendees studied the provisions of international arms control treaties and deepened knowledge of the Russian language, as well as shared experience of working as inspectors and attendants under the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and the 2011 Vienna Document on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures.

During the practical part different exercises were held. They included the inspection of the announced area in the training support battalion of the Belarusian Military Academy, which is subject to control under the Treaty, and the evaluation visit to the 2nd Engineer Brigade under the 2011 Vienna Document.

The inspections proved the correspondence between the actual amount of the materiel limited by the treaty and the declared data, as well as verified the reliability of the information on the personnel and materiel of the 2nd Engineer Brigade, presented by Belarus to the 2011 Vienna Document member states.