From: "mart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: NATO To Hold Military Exercises Off Slovenian Coast [NATO Turkish troops will surely be appreciated by the locals, as they no doubt are in Macedonia currently. Perhaps they will include military personnel fresh from insuring multiethnic harmony in Turkish Kurdistan or some who have just returned from Turkey's latest, week-long, invasion of Northern Iraq, protecting national integrity and the rule of international law. And we all know what vital interests Baltic nation Lithuania has in the Adriatic. Again, to refresh our memories: Numerous polls have been conducted in Slovenia itself demonstrating widespread opposition to NATO membership. Another purpose of the scheduled NATO exercise is, I'm sure, to foster democracy.] NATO to Hold Partnership for Peace Military Exercise off Slovene Coast Sep 5, 2001 -- (BBC Monitoring) Text of report in English by Slovene news agency STA. Postojna, 5 September: An international military exercise is to take place at Ankaran, the Slovene coast, between 17 and 22 September in which Partnership for Peace (PfP) countries Slovenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Lithuania and Romania, as well as NATO members France, Italy, Turkey and the U.S. are to take part. The exercise Cooperative Engagement will be under the direction of the Allied Naval Forces Southern Europe, the Slovene Armed Forces said on Wednesday [5 September]. The exercise will take place in the form of workshops and lectures by NATO naval military experts and short exercises, as well as visits to ships and aircrafts. The main goal of the exercise will be to improve interoperability among maritime forces of NATO and partner nations in mine countermeasures and search and rescue operations for use in peace support/humanitarian assistance. Italy's minesweeper Numana and a Trieste coastguard boat will be docked in the port of Koper during the exercise, while French military airplane LE N 262E, the Trieste coastguard helicopter Avgusta Bell 412, and the Slovene Armed Forces helicopter Bell 412 will land at the Portoroz airport. Sea vessels and aircrafts will be used only in the presentation of their equipment. Source: STA news agency, Ljubljana, in English 0912 GMT 5 Sep 01 (C) 2001 BBC Monitoring _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
