http://www.dnd.ca/site/newsroom/view_news_e.asp?id=1684
Canadian Soldiers to Participate in International Training Exercise in Ukraine
OTTAWA, Canada, June 21, 2005 - Thirty-six Canadian Forces members recently left Canada to participate in Exercise CO-OPERATIVE BEST EFFORT 2005 (CBE-05), a Partnership for Peace (PfP) exercise in the Yavoriv Training Area near Lviv, Ukraine. Approximately 700 personnel from 27 nations are involved in CBE-05, which concludes June 30. The aim of CBE-05 is to develop individual and small field unit light infantry skills needed for NATO-led multinational peace support operations. Canadian soldiers are training as sections within international platoons in a variety of tasks such as patrolling, medical evacuation, search operations, convoy escorts, interacting with media, and the preparation and operation of check points and observation posts.
The PfP program brings together NATO, PfP, Mediterranean Dialogue, and Istanbul Cooperation Initiative nations in a series of joint defense and security-related activities. It was launched in 1994 in an effort to help increase stability and security throughout Europe.
This exercise brings together the NATO member states of Bulgaria, Canada, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States; the PfP nations of Austria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Republic of Georgia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Switzerland; two Mediterranean Dialogue nations, Israel and Egypt; and two members of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative, Kuwait and Qatar.
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