December 13-16, the strat-up planning conference of exercise „Amber Hope 2011" was held at Gen Adolfas Ramanauskas Warfare Training Centre. Scenario and plan of the exercise were elaborated on, work of divisions of the exercise planning, of experts across various fields and foreign partners were coordinated at the conference.
Representatives of participant foreign countries - Estonia, Georgia, USA, Canada, Latvia, Poland and Finland, and Public Security Service under the Ministry of the Interior and the Lithuanian Redo Cross took attended the conference alongside representatives of the Lithuanian Armed Forces.
Exercise „Amber Hope 2011"due to take place simultaneously in Klaipėda and Pabradė next June will be the biggest military drills held in Lithuania in 2011. Nine countries are planned to be represented in the exercise by the total of over two thousand troops, officers and civilians, and observers sent by other countries and organisations.
„Amber Hope" organised in Lithuania after a pause of 4 years is great news. The event is exceptional because it pulls together all the branches of armed forces charged with independent and joint operations alike", representative of the Joint Headquarters of the Lithuanian Armed Forces Lt Col Stasys Paldūnas responsible for planning the exercise in Lithuania commented on „Amber Hope 2011".
„Amber Hope" is planned by the Joint Headquarters of the Lithuanian Armed, the institution to manage and conduct the exercise next year.
By tradition „Amber Hope" has been organised in Lithuania since 1995. The key aim of the event in 2011 is coordination of actions of NATO and other states in conducting multinational crisis response operations in the context of different equipment and technical facilities and different structures of divisions and procedures, and evaluation and improvement of Host Nation Support procedures.
Pictures: moments of the start-up conference.
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