TBILISI. Dec 2 (Interfax-AVN) - Seven officers of the U.S. European Command left for the Georgian region of Ajaria on Thursday to discuss details of the upcoming Rescuer/Medceur command post and military medical exercise with local administrations.
The military medical part of the NATO-sponsored exercise scheduled for September 2005 will take place in the Ajarian autonomous republic, "and it is time to determine the facilities that will be involved in it," Omar Begoidze, chief of the Partnership for Peace coordination headquarters in the Georgian General Staff, told Interfax-Military News Agency.
Tbilisi will host the planning conference of the exercise from December 6 to 9, he said. In addition to Ajaria, the exercise will be hosted by the locality of Vaziani not far from Tbilisi.
Georgia hosted previous exercises of this type in 2000 and 2003.
The conference will involve 73 officers representing the U.S., Georgia, Albania, Armenia, Moldova, Latvia, Germany, Ukraine, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia, Begoidze said.
"All these countries will send their servicemen for the exercise in 2005, and Ukraine and Croatia have displayed special interest in the event," he said.
"Unfortunately, Russia does not send its representatives," Begoidze added.