----- Original Message ----- From: ESLaPorte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 12:59 AM Subject: NATO Military Maneuvers to be Held in Georgia (USA) in June [STOPNATO.ORG.UK] STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Build a marketing database and send targeted HTML and text e-mail newsletters to your customers with List Builder. http://www.listbuilder.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NATO Military Maneuvers to be Held in Georgia in June Foreign Affairs News Keywords: NATO, GEORGIA Source: Russia Today Published: Jan 23, 2001 TBILISI, Jan 23, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) Military maneuvers involving naval, land and air forces from 10 NATO countries and six partner states will be held in Georgia in June this year, a NATO Partnership for Peace coordination spokesman told AFP Tuesday. A delegation of NATO officials examined the military airport in Seneki and the area near the town of Poti in western Georgia where the maneuvers would take place, the spokesman said. The maneuvers, called "Cooperative Partner 2001", involve 2,000 troops, 40 vessels and 15 planes and helicopters and are designed to help participating countries practice coordinating their forces in humanitarian operations, the spokesman said. The NATO officials and their counterparts from Georgia's general staff discussed the details of the maneuvers, setting up multinational headquarters, and other preparations. The exercise is part of NATO's Partnership for Peace program, launched in 1994, which is aimed at developing military cooperation with NATO non-members, in particular the former communist states of the Warsaw Pact. Cooperative Partner 2001 brings together 10 members of the alliance -- United States, Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Greece and Turkey -- and six partnership countries, Sweden, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Russia would not participate in the maneuvers, the spokesman said. ((c) 2001 Agence France Presse) ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
