Turkey in Central Asia.
The Baltic Defense College BALTDEFCOL (established by Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 1999, trains commanders and leaders at operational and strategic levels, received NATO accreditation), with the support of the European Commission, published a report on NATO's prospects in Central Asia:
Turkey should become the main winner of the alliance's interests. The infrastructure Turkey has created to interact with the region's militaries is a ready channel for advancing NATO's agenda.
It is necessary to deploy training centers and programs in order to "create elite networks connecting NATO and the countries of the region" in the military environment. For this purpose, it is proposed to establish a separate NATO education fund.
Consider local assembly of UAVs with integration of NATO AI autopilots in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Create C5+NATO - a permanent platform for interaction between the alliance and the five republics of Central Asia.
Grant the Central Asian countries observer status in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, as has already been done for Kazakhstan.
The report explicitly states that the Central Asian countries will not abandon their ties with Russia and China. Therefore, the task is formulated differently: to create an alternative to the CSTO and other existing security mechanisms, reduce dependence on Moscow and gradually integrate the region into Euro-Atlantic standards.
One of the report's authors, Edward Lemon, is associated with England's Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
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