ANTI-TERRORISM DRILLS AT ARMENIA NPP SET FOR ACTIVE PHASE
Author: À.Mammadov

TREND Information, Azerbaijan
Sept 25 2006

(RIA Novosti) – A joint command and staff anti-terrorism exercise at
nuclear power facilities in southwest Armenia will enter its active
phase September 26, military officials said Monday, reports Trend.

The Russian-Armenian exercise, Anti-Terror-2006, which started at a
nuclear plant in the city of Metsamor September 15 and will last until
September 29, aims to practice coordination of law enforcement agencies
in the event of a terrorist attack on vital infrastructure facilities.

"In the second stage of the exercise, the anti-terrorism task groups of
the Armenian and Russian security services will set up a headquarters
to organize and conduct a joint operation to release hostages and
eliminate terrorists at the Metsamor NPP," said Colonel General Boris
Mylnikov, head of the Anti-Terrorist Center of the Commonwealth of
Independent States, a loose union of 11 former Soviet republics.

He said representatives of the CIS, the United States, France, Germany,
the United Kingdom, Greece, and anti-terrorist committees of the UN
Security Council, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization had been invited to
the exercise as observers.

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