TSAMTO, December 24. The Russian Defense Ministry hosted the 1st International Planning Conference on the preparation and holding of the 2022 Army International Games (ArMI-2022).
It was attended by more than 100 representatives of the military departments of the host countries of ARMI-2022 and the military-diplomatic corps from more than 40 states. Representatives of the military departments from Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Venezuela, Vietnam, Iran, China, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia and Sri Lanka participated in the event via videoconference.
During the conference, military attaches of foreign states representatives of the countries-organizers of the competitions were brought organizational issues, the distribution of competitions between countries was proposed for discussion. They were presented with the specifics and order of the competitions. The meeting was attended by representatives of the military departments of Venezuela and Sri Lanka, who expressed a desire to hold a number of ArMI competitions on their territories for the first time.
Also, within the framework of the planning conference, a meeting of the international organizing committee for the preparation of ARMI-2022 was held, at which participants and organizers of the games discussed a number of organizational issues related to the Provisions on Judging, the work of the Main Judging Commission, the distribution of competitions between countries, the organization of information support.
As Colonel-General Ivan Buvaltsev noted, "The 2022 Army International Games will be held from August 13 to 27. During the games, it is planned to hold 36 international competitions with the maximum expansion of their geography to 15 countries. Invitations to participate in ArMI-2022 have been sent to the military departments of about 100 countries."
The Organizing Committee of ARMI-2022 expects that at least 300 teams will take part in the competition next year. Among the competitions proposed for next year there were two new ones – the competition of railway troops units "Steel Highway" and the competition among ammunition transportation teams "Special Jerk".
Already in April next year, the first competition of the Army International Games of 2022 – "Sayan March" will be held in the Krasnoyarsk Territory on the basis of mountain training "Ergaki", the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.
