REPRESENTATIVES OF RA ARMED FORCES TO TAKE PART IN “JOINT ARCH” AND “JOINT STRIVING” EXERCISES

Noyan Tapan
Mar 27 2006

YEREVAN, MARCH 27, NOYAN TAPAN. The “Best Joint Effort” and “Joint
Partner” exercises held within the framework of the Partnership for
Peace NATO Program were unified in 2006 being named “Joint Arch”. The
preliminary (was held on January 16-20, 2006) and main (was held on
February 6-11, 2006) planning conferences of these exercises were held
in Moldova with participation of two headquarters officers of RA Armed
Forces. Representatives of RA Armed Forces will also take part in the
final planning conference to be held in May and the exercises’ working
meeting to be held in September. The place of their holding is not
clear yet. The exercises will be held on September 11-29 in Moldova.

According to Colonel Seyran Shahsuvarian, Spokesperson for RA Defence
Minister, 2 headquarters officers, 1 doctor, 1 signaller and a large
detachment consisting of 8 persons from the peace-keeping battalion
of RA Defence Ministry will take part in the exercises. As for the
“Joint Striving-06” interco mmunication exercises, they are organized
by the U.S. European Command. Their two conferences were held in 2005
in Albania and Macedonia and the main planning conference on January
22-28 this year, in Croatia. The intercommunication specialists of RA
Armed Forces took part in all of these conferences. The final planning
conference of the exercises was held on March 21-24 in Georgia.

Representatives of RA Armed Forces took part in it, too. The exercises
will be coordinated by means of an intercommunication hub located in
Germany, with which the participants should get in touch from their
countries. Representatives of RA Armed Forces will take part in the
above-mentioned exercises from the territory of Armenia, through
a satellite communication. The preliminary planning conference of
the “Joint Striving-07” exercises will be held on September 11-15
in Yerevan.