TBILISI, January 22 (AVN) - Representatives of the NATO Southern Command have examined the military airfield in the Georgian town of Senaki and the area near the town of Poti where the NATO Cooperative Partner 2001 war games will take place in June this year, the Military News Agency learned.
NATO experts met Georgian Chief-of-Staff Dzhoni Pirtskhalaishvili on Monday to discuss Georgia's preparations for hosting military units of NATO member nations and their partners. They also considered functioning of the international war games headquarters and details of the forthcoming manoeuvres.
Cooperative Partner 2001 aims to practise interaction between multinational naval, aviation and ground forces engaged in a large-scale humanitarian operation. The war games will involve some 40 military vessels of various types, 15 combat and military-transport planes, and marine units of several nations. About 2,000 people will take part in the training.
Russia was not invited to take part in the war games.