SECOND STAGE OF NATO EXERCISES STARTS IN YEREVAN

AZG Armenian Daily
09/10/2008

Armenia-NATO

The second stage of NATO’s "Cooperative Lancer" exercises is to launch
in Yerevan on October 8 within the frameworkss of the "Partnership
for Peace" program. The Information Center informs that the solemn
opening ceremony of the second stage will be held at the Defense
Ministry’s Military Institute of Armenia.

The First stage of the exercises, named "Cooperative Longbow-2008",
finished on October 6. The exercises ‘Cooperative Longbow/Lancer –
2008’ within the frames of NATO programme ‘Partnership for Peace’
and Istanbul cooperation initiative are held form September 29 to
October 20. The events aim at improvement of the cooperation among NATO
member-countries and partner states for response to different crisis
situations within UN mandate. The exercises are held by two stages:
exercises at the command station on management of the multinational
team headquarters and field exercises of the multinational battalion.

Representatives of the Armed Forces of 16 states, such as Hungary,
Canada, Lithuania, Poland, Greece, Macedonia, Czech, Austria, Albania,
UAE, Switzerland, Moldova, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Bosnia and Herzegovina
arrived in Armenia to take part in the exercises.
From: Baghdasarian