Deputy Director for Politico-Military Affairs for Asia/Pacific and The Middle East, US Air Force Major General Theodore W. Lay II attends an International Conference on stability and Security in the Central Asian Region in Kazakhstan on September 14th, 2000. The conference is running in concert with CENTRASBAT (Central Asian Peacekeeping Battalion) 2000 a multi-national peacekeeping and humanitarian relief exercise sponsored by United States Central Command (U.S. CENTCOM) and hosted by former Soviet Republic Kazakhstan in Central Asia, Sep. 11-20, 2000. Exercise participants include approximately 300 U. S. troops including personnel from U.S. CENTCOM, from the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne ...
