The ceremony of awarding diplomas to the graduates of the country's leading military higher education institution took place at the Defenders of the Motherland Square.
This year, 145 officers graduated from the National Defense University. Training of students was carried out in ten faculties and twenty-seven departments in nine specialties of the master's degree in postgraduate education programs.
The head of the Department of Defense, Colonel-General Ruslan Zhaksylykov, presented diplomas to the graduates of the Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
In his speech to the officers, the Minister of Defense emphasized the need to qualitatively implement the tasks of the President of the country to adapt the Armed Forces to the ongoing changes, modernize the management system, and pay special attention to the introduction of digital technologies, artificial intelligence and drone flight systems. For this, it is required to strengthen the personnel capacity of the army.
The diplomas you receive will not only establish your new professional status, but also impose great responsibilities on you. At the same time, this means that the ranks of the Kazakh army are filled with professionally trained, highly qualified officers educated at the country's most prestigious military educational institution, - noted Colonel-General Ruslan Zhaksylykov.
There are 10 representatives of the Republic of Tajikistan among the graduates. Foreign officers expressed their warm greetings to Kazakhstan and thanked them for giving them the opportunity to receive quality military education.
- We will use the knowledge we received at the university not only for the benefit of our country, but also to strengthen combat cooperation within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, - said Major Bohodur Turaev, an officer of the Armed Forces of Tajikistan.
It should be noted that the National Defense University is the only higher education institution in the Central Asian region that trains military personnel for strategic, operational-strategic and operational-tactical units under master's and doctoral programs.
Not only the officers of the Armed Forces, but also representatives of other armies and military units of the country, as well as military personnel of the member countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, are studying at the university.