NATO exercises in Georgia ending

Nato military excercises in Georgia are ending with a field day of manoeuvres.

Field training in Georgia's Vaziani base, outside the capital Tbilisi, involves nearly 700 soldiers from 13 countries.

Exercises, that began on May 6th, are held under NATO's Partnership for Peace programme, aimed at building up military cooperation between NATO and non-NATO countries.

Albania, Canada, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Spain, Turkey, UK, and the USA were the NATO members taking part in the drills near South Ossetia.

They were joined by the members of the Partnership for Peace Programme -- Bosnia Herzegovina, Macedonia, Georgia and Ukraine.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR OF NATO INFORMATION MEDIA CENTRE, LOUIS ARAPAHO SAYING: "Today is the last day of May and we are finalising all our training. I think that the evaluation is that we have accomplished our objectives, the main objectives of this exercise have been accomplished and as everybody knows it is the interoperability between NATO countries and the partner countries."

Georgia has become a focus of tensions between the West and Russia.

The former Soviet country's ambitions to join NATO angered Moscow who opposes Georgia's bid to join the alliance.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev attacked NATO exercises in Georgia, saying they were increasing tension and "added nothing" to European security.
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[nickikz]

that's awesome

[jalubljusvojumamu]

Хреново они вас "exercise"))) обложались как только до дела дошло...

[vograd]

looks like this NATO experience didn't help much did it?