LARGE-SCALE NATO EXERCISES SET OFF IN MOLDOVA

REGNUM
September 14, 2006

NATO Cooperative Longbow/Lancer-2006 exercises have set off in Moldova
on September 11, the press service of the Moldavian Defense Ministry
has informed REGNUM.

The command exercises will be held in the territory of the Moldavian
Defense Ministry, in Chisinau, on September 11-20, the Cooperative
Lancer field exercises in the training center, in Bulboaca, on
September 18-29.

Almost 1,000 servicemen and 50 civilians from nine NATO member states
(the US, Bulgaria, Canada, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Turkey,
the UK) and 12 partner states (Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan,
Belarus, Croatia, Macedonia, Georgia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Switzerland,
Ukraine) will take part in the exercises. Representatives of Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Qatar, UAE and Serbia will observe the events.