ATOM-ANTI-TERROR — ’06 EXERCISES BEGIN IN ARMENIA
by Vladimir Zainetdinov

ITAR-TASS News Agency
September 25, 2006 Monday 07:50 PM EST

Simulated "terrorists" will seek "to seize" an Armenian nuclear
power station during large-scale operational and tactical anti-terror
exercises that begin in the Republic of Armenia on Tuesday.

The exercises, codenamed Atom-Anti-Terror –2006 will involve the
special services of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
and the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

Boris Mylnikov, chief of the CIS anti-terrorist center, has told
Itar-Tass, "These are the first such exercises to be conducted in
the CIS at a nuclear power industry facility".

Invited to watch the exercises as observers are officials of
G-8 countries, the Anti-Terrorist Unit of the Secretariat of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the
Counterterrorist Committee of the United Nations Security Council,
the UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, and the regional
anti-terrorist center of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

The United States, Greece, France, China, and the OSCE have confirmed
their attendance. Out of CIS countries, members of the special
services of Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan will participate
in the Atom-Anti-Terror -2006 exercises, Mylnikov said.