Initial Exercise Press Release
Exercise Cooperative Baltic Eye 2001 (Be 01)
NATO/PfP
Search and Rescue Exercise
Focuses on Developing
Training and Collaboration
Exercise Cooperative Baltic Eye is a biennial Partnership-for-Peace
live exercise sponsored by NATO to assist in developing collaboration
in Search and Rescue (SAR) missions in participating nations. COOP BALTIC
EYE 01 will take place between 14 - 16 may 2001 in the Baltic Sea.
The aim of the exercise is to develop procedures for Command, Control
and Coordination of SAR resources. The exercise incorporates a number
of separate incidents, which are planned across SAR regional boundaries
to ensure maximum interaction between participating Rescue Coordination
Centres. The incidents normally take the form of a search operation under
the control of one of these Centres and is usually followed by a rescue
operation, where national SAR assets practice in a multi-national environment
the recovery of survivors from simulated air and/or sea accidents.
The Coop Baltic Eye series of exercise is part of an international
agreement where NATO and Partner SAR assets conduct regular exercises
in accordance with International Maritime Organisation and International
Civil Aviation Organisation policy and procedures.
Lieutenant General Ove Høegh-Guldberg Hoff, Commander Joint Command
Northeast (COMJCNORTHEAST) will conduct the exercise on behalf of Admiral
Sir Alan West KCB, Commander Allied Naval Forces North (COMNAVNORTH),
who is scheduling it. COMJCNORTHEAST will also be responsible for the
Operational Instructions.
Participants from six NATO nations (Denmark, France, Germany, Poland,
the United Kingdom and the United States of America), as well as six Partner
nations (Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia and Sweden) will
participate in COOP BALTIC EYE 2001.
Further information can be obtained from the public information office,
HQ NAVNORTH:
Phone: +44 (0) 1923 843763
Fax: +44 (0)1923 843762
pio@eastlant.nato.int
and:
Polish point of contact:
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