Exercise Cooperative Best Effort in Ukraine
Personnel from ten NATO member countries, eleven Partners and two Mediterranean Dialogue countries have been taking part in Exercise Cooperative Best Effort 2005 at the Yavoriv training centre in Lviv, Ukraine from 19 to 30 June. The event has been exerc
NATO nations, partner nations and Mediterranean Dialogue countries will conduct a Partnership for Peace exercise, called Cooperative Best Effort (CBE 05) at the Yavoriv training centre in L’Viv, Ukraine from 19 – 30 June 2005.
Personnel from the following twenty-four nations will participate in this live, field training exercise:
- Ten NATO member nations: Bulgaria, Canada, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
- Eleven partner nations: Austria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia ª, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Switzerland and Ukraine.
- Two Mediterranean Dialogue countries: Egypt and Israel.
- Other nations are invited to observe.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) will also participate in the exercise.
CBE 05 will exercise light infantry skills across a variety of peace support operation settings, seeking to improve military interoperability at the individual and multinational small unit level. Commanders, staffs and units of the participating nations will form a multinational headquarters with a multinational battalion in the field to exercise in the procedures required to conduct such operations.
CBE 05 is scheduled by the Commander, Joint Force Command Naples. The Commander, Allied Land Component Madrid will conduct the exercise.
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