TBILSI. April 11 (Interfax-AVN) - The U.S. will have completed by the end of May the preparation of the Georgian Defense Ministry's Vaziani base of the for the Rescuer/Medceur 2003 exercise that is to take place in September in the framework of NATO's Partnership for Peace (PfP) program.
Americans are preparing a headquarters computer center and personnel barracks for the exercise, chief of the PfP coordination headquarters in the Georgian General Staff Vice Colonel Irakly Batkuashvili told Interfax-Military News Agency on Friday.
The exercise was originally scheduled for May to June but was postponed to a later date because the attention of the American military was focused on Iraq.
Two conferences, one in October 2002 and the other in January 2003, took place in Tbilisi in the framework of preparations for the training.
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Germany, Moldova and Ukraine have confirmed participation in the maneuvers.
It was originally planned to hold a two-week military and medical exercise and later a two-week computerized command post exercise in cooperation in crisis situations, for instance, man- made emergencies.