NATO CONDUCTS TRAINING DRILL IN ARMENIA
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)
2008-09-29 17:04:01
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YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) – Hundreds of military personnel from NATO and
ex-Soviet bloc nations are in Armenia for a NATO-organized training
exercise.
U.S. Lieutenant General John Gardner says the drill is focusing a
theoretical humanitarian crisis and is designed to help NATO members
better work with non-alliance countries.
The three-week drill involving 17 countries comes weeks after
neighboring Georgia fought a brief war with Russia over the status
of two Georgian breakaway regions.
The war rattled the entire South Caucasus region, which straddles
East-West trading corridors.
Neither Russia nor Georgia sent representatives to the drill, which
began Monday.
Nor did Turkey or Azerbaijan, against whom Armenia fought a war in
the 1990s over Nagorno-Karabakh.
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