Best modernization year for armed forces in 20 years
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- Date: 11.02.2016
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On the occasion of the Chief of the SVK General Staff’s assembly of commanders, SVK Minister of Defence Martin Glváč informed the High Command of the SVK Armed Forces on the ongoing as well as planned modernization projects. The assembly of commanders took place in the presence of H.E. Mr Andrej Kiska, SVK President and Commander-in-Chief of the SVK Armed Forces.
“Concerning modernization of the SVK Armed Forces, last year was the most successful in the past 20 years. The approved projects are financially covered and now we concentrate especially on land forces. The assembly of commanders evaluates the past training year, so we have to honestly confess what we are good at, what we are bad at, what to improve, and what we are going to do about it,” said Minister Glváč. Commenting on the priority of armed forces modernization as a whole and quality training, he emphasized: “Our soldiers definitely need new armaments and vehicles. One of the reasons is the fact that we have increased the number of exercises to a great extent, which the personnel avidly welcomed. Nonetheless, besides organizing exercises outside barracks, to be able to improve the training process soldiers need modern equipment.” The Defence Minister also added that during the past few years, we have faced such threats that our citizens have never had to confront before. Therefore, in his opinion, defence and security are one of the key issues.
“I am glad modernization has already got underway. Modernization has to continue, since it is one of the fundamental tasks we need to fulfill. I believe that we need stability to improve our armed forces. We need to know that every single citizen and the whole nation as well is aware that we have to talk about defence not only during bad times. Defence cannot be seen as a coat we put on only when we feel cold, we need to talk about defence all the time,” said the SVK President.
While evaluating the level of fulfillment of the 2015 Training Year’s tasks at the assembly of commanders, Chief of the SVK General Staff Gen Milan Maxim briefed on the goals for 2016: “I perceive prospective training issues very positively. We had favourable conditions for training and presentation of our readiness to respond to current security challenges, which could affect citizens of Slovakia or the performance of our tasks abroad.” Simultaneously, speaking highly of unplanned exercises that took place last year in response to the current security situation, Gen Maxim said: “They were very positive from my point of view. The conditions were set well. I think we met the assigned tasks, therefore I expressed my thanks to SVK Armed Forces personnel. This year we also have to face security challenges and pay maximum attention to the principal task, which is defending Slovakia, as well as to assistance tasks in favour of our citizens.”
“Concerning modernization of the SVK Armed Forces, last year was the most successful in the past 20 years. The approved projects are financially covered and now we concentrate especially on land forces. The assembly of commanders evaluates the past training year, so we have to honestly confess what we are good at, what we are bad at, what to improve, and what we are going to do about it,” said Minister Glváč. Commenting on the priority of armed forces modernization as a whole and quality training, he emphasized: “Our soldiers definitely need new armaments and vehicles. One of the reasons is the fact that we have increased the number of exercises to a great extent, which the personnel avidly welcomed. Nonetheless, besides organizing exercises outside barracks, to be able to improve the training process soldiers need modern equipment.” The Defence Minister also added that during the past few years, we have faced such threats that our citizens have never had to confront before. Therefore, in his opinion, defence and security are one of the key issues.
“I am glad modernization has already got underway. Modernization has to continue, since it is one of the fundamental tasks we need to fulfill. I believe that we need stability to improve our armed forces. We need to know that every single citizen and the whole nation as well is aware that we have to talk about defence not only during bad times. Defence cannot be seen as a coat we put on only when we feel cold, we need to talk about defence all the time,” said the SVK President.
While evaluating the level of fulfillment of the 2015 Training Year’s tasks at the assembly of commanders, Chief of the SVK General Staff Gen Milan Maxim briefed on the goals for 2016: “I perceive prospective training issues very positively. We had favourable conditions for training and presentation of our readiness to respond to current security challenges, which could affect citizens of Slovakia or the performance of our tasks abroad.” Simultaneously, speaking highly of unplanned exercises that took place last year in response to the current security situation, Gen Maxim said: “They were very positive from my point of view. The conditions were set well. I think we met the assigned tasks, therefore I expressed my thanks to SVK Armed Forces personnel. This year we also have to face security challenges and pay maximum attention to the principal task, which is defending Slovakia, as well as to assistance tasks in favour of our citizens.”
