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    NATO EXERCISES IN ARMENIA WILL IMPROVE INTERACTION OF UNITS OF THE ALLIANCE

    WPS Agency
    DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
    October 1, 2008 Wednesday
    Russia

    NATO exercises Cooperative Longbow/ Lancer - 2008 will take place in
    Armenia in the framework of Partnership for Peace program between
    September 29 and October 21. Colonel Seiran Shakhsuvaryan, press
    secretary of the Armenian Defense Minister reported earlier that the
    goal of the exercise was to increase the level of interaction between
    units of NATO and partner countries. More than 900 servicemen from
    21 countries including seven NATO members and 14 participants of NATO
    programs Partnership for Peace and Istanbul Initiative will take part
    in the exercises.

    Earlier, deputy chief of the main staff of the armed forces of Armenia,
    Major General Arshaluis Paytyan, reported that both NATO member states
    including the US, UK, Poland, Lithuania and Canada and post-Soviet
    states of Georgia, Kazakhstan and Moldova would take part in the
    exercises. The exercises will be commanded by Lieutenant General Jack
    Gardner, deputy commander of central base Heidelberg representing
    the US armed forces.

    The exercises will take part in two stages: command staff and field
    exercises. Their participants represent various branches of the
    armed forces and various military professions, including drivers,
    doctors and sappers.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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