Georgia’s Krtsanisi National Training Centre near capital Tbilisi is hosting on November 10-20 NATO-Georgia Exercise 2016, the first NATO-Georgia joint multinational brigade-level, Computer Assisted, Command Post exercise, which is included in NATO exercises list, Agenda.ge reports.
Thirteen NATO allied member states and two partners are providing officers for the exercise, including Turkey, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Belgium, Slovenia, United Kingdom, United States, Ukraine and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
"NATO-Georgia Exercise 2016 is a landmark exercise for Georgia and a significant milestone in strengthening NATO-Georgia military cooperation,” Georgia’s Ministry of Defence wrote.
The exercise is testing the inter-operability of Georgian, Allied and Partner Forces, as well as command and control capabilities.
This is the second NATO-Georgia exercise to take place through the Substantial NATO-Georgia Package (SNGP) framework – a series of thirteen defence capacity building measures agreed between Georgia and NATO at the Wales summit in 2014.
