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    ARMENIA TAKES PART IN "AMBER HOPE - 2007" MILITARY EXERCISES HELD IN LITHUANIA

    Noyan Tapan
    Jun 20 2007

    KLAIPEDA, JUNE 20, NOYAN TAPAN. The military exercises "Amber Hope -
    2007" are being held in the port Klaipeda in Lithuania since June
    18. This is already the 8th military exercise of these series since
    1997 in which 11 NATO member countries cooperating within the framework
    of the Cooperation for Peace program take part: Armenia, Azerbaijan,
    Great Britain, the U.S.A., Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland,
    Finland, and Germany. Russia, Belarus, Moldova, and the Ukraine are
    represented as observers.

    According to the information provided to Noyan Tapan by the RA Defence
    Ministry, the main goal of the military exercises is participation
    of representatives of armed forces of different countries in the
    NATO's possible attacks in case of critical situations, as well as
    development of interactions between different countries.

    For the first time all kinds of forces cooperate in the military
    exercises: infantry, air forces, and fleet. The participants of the
    military exercises (more than 1800 people) are divided into three
    multi-national battalions, which are headed by the representatives
    of Lithuania, Finland, and Great Britain.

    The military exercises will continue two weeks and they will be held by
    two stages: activities for providing peace (investigation of the site,
    fulcra, armed groupings, and rendering harmless, to name but a few)
    will be worked out in the first stage and in the second one on June
    25-29 the knowledge and skills obtained during the military exercises
    will be displayed.

    Lithuania has the greatest number of participants in the military
    exercises "Amber Hope - 2007" (1200 servicemen), Finland had about
    300, Great Britain 165, Latvia 120, and Poland 60 participants. Major
    Mkrtich Minasian and captain Ruben Papian represent the armed forces
    of Armenia.

    The military exercises will end on July 1.
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