22 June 2005

Exercise Cooperative Best Effort 2005 (CBE 05) NATO Exercises With Partners And Mediterranean Dialogue Countries In Ukraine 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-three 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 (1), Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Switzerland and Ukraine. Two Mediterranean Dialogue countries: Egypt and Israel. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHR) 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. Note for the editor: A P ress Information Centre (PIC) will be operational at the Yavoriv Training Centre in L’viv, Ukraine from 16 June 2005 . Questions prior to the establishment of the PIC should be addressed to CC-Land Madrid /Public Information Office. Tel. + 34 91 512 63 98. Fax. + 34 91 512 64 57. E-mail: dospio@jcsw.nato.int Two media opportunities Interested journalists should be accredited by bona fide media organizations (press ID or accreditation letter). The PIC will register media representatives, and escort them during media activities. Media opportunities listed below are open to registered journalists. Due to limited number of posts for every event, the PIC cannot guarantee attendance by every interested journalist. 19 June: opening ceremony (initial press conference and photo opportunity) 25 June: media day (media coverage) 30 June: closing ceremony (photo opportunity) Remarks: a daily updated list of events will be available at the PIC. (1)Turkey recognises the Republic of Macedonia with its constitutional name.