Meeting with Cadets at the General Margelov Airborne Troops Institute in Ryazan.Part 1
November 29, 2002
Ryazan
Встреча с курсантами Рязанского института воздушно-десантных войск имени генерала армии В.Ф.Маргелова
29 ноября 2002 года
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VLADIMIR PUTIN: Significant changes are taking place in the country and in its armed forces. We will try to build the armed forces so that they are better equipped and with the idea of gradually changing the recruitment principles.You know about the problems that the country may face in the coming years in recruiting servicemen for the armed forces. So, we have no choice but to consider new principles of army recruitment and to increase the number of contract soldiers. We cannot do it too quickly because the country and its economy are not yet ready. You understand that we need to guard ammunition depots and perform other difficult routine military duties and you cant replace all the conscripts with contractees.But we will gradually move in that direction and as the number of servicemen recruited under contract increases, we will cut the number of conscripts and reduce the length of service. All this should be coordinated and calculated in order to not damage the countrys defence capability.That is enough regarding recruitment.We have adopted a programme for providing the army with the latest military hardware up to the year 2010. We will move consistently in this direction and strengthen the countrys defence industry. Decisions are being taken to create scientific and production complexes and large associations. Unfortunately, the army is not being modernised as fast as we would like.But this is the only way if the army is to have a future. Our army must be equipped with modern weapons systems. This is true of the ground forces, the air force and the strategic missile force. We must be a modern country in every way. We are not going to fight anyone, but in order not to have to fight, we need to have a good army that is well equipped and well trained.It need not be very large, but it must be very effective. We have every reason to hope that we will succeed if we fulfill the plans we have made. So far, all the priority tasks we set ourselves for the coming year and a half to two years are being fulfilled. I hope they will continue to be fulfilled in the future.In connection with this, I have no doubt that airborne troops face very special challenges. You know about the new threats not only to this country, but to many others. These threats are well known. They are terrorism, intolerance and interethnic strife, which radicals of all types both religious and political try to take advantage of. So the role of the special units in securing the interests of the state, the role of the Airborne Troops, is very important.And I can tell you with full responsibility that the tasks that the special units of the security agencies and ministries are tackling, the tasks that are frequently given to the Airborne Troops, are truly national tasks. This is not about participation in some minor conflicts with unknown purposes and aims. This is about protecting the Motherland in the direct sense of the word.We know that different points of view have been expressed about events in the Caucasus. The situation there is complicated and it did not arise yesterday. I am not going into the root causes, as it all started with the trends triggered by the collapse of the Soviet Union. These trends spilt over into the Russian Federation.
Separatism was the first thing that started creating problems in the Caucasus. It quickly transformed itself. The relay was quickly taken from the separatists by international terrorist centres, which set themselves objectives that have nothing to do with the interests of the people who live in the Chechen Republic.I have said it many times in public and I would like to repeat it to this audience. We have a clear, understandable, open, absolutely moral and honest position. Attempts to seize territories outside Chechnya have nothing to do with the interests of the Chechen people. So we have every moral and political right to claim that today we are dealing not simply with separatists but with part of an international terrorist network.
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