ISSUE OF ARMENIA’S PARTICIPATION IN ‘SEA BREEZE 2009′ EXERCISES TO BE SOLVED AT FINAL EXERCISE PLANNING CONFERENCE

ArmInfo
2009-02-09 12:50:00

ArmInfo. The issue of Armenia’s participation in Sea Breeze 209
exercises will be solved at the final exercise planning conference,
spokesman of the Defense Ministry of Armenia Colonel Seyran
Shahsuvaryan told ArmInfo.

It is scheduled to hold the multinational Ukrainian-American
military-naval exercises Sea Breeze 2009 on July 9-28, 2009 in the
territory of the Western naval base, the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ naval
and military firing ranges of battle training located in Nikolayevo
region and Northern-western part of the Black Sea. It is envisaged
to attract officers of a multinational staff (Algeria, Azerbaijan,
Armenia, Georgia, Greece, Dania, Canada, Latvia, Macedonia , Moldova,
Germany, Turkey, Rumania, USA, Croatia), about 6 ships, 3 military
transport aircrafts and a multinational peace-keeping marine battalion
to the exercises. To note, the last attempt of organizing the naval
"Sea Breeze" exercises in the Black Sea basin completed with mass
protest actions of the peninsula dwellers who almost hamper the
exercises and forced the American servicemen to leave the place
of holding.