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ANTI-TERRORISM DRILLS AT ARMENIA NPP SET FOR ACTIVE PHASE
RIA Novosti, Russia
Sept 25 2006
MOSCOW, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - A joint command and staff
anti-terrorism exercise at nuclear power facilities in southwest
Armenia will enter its active phase September 26, military officials
said Monday.
The Russian-Armenian exercise, Anti-Terror-2006, which started at a
nuclear plant in the city of Metsamor September 15 and will last until
September 29, aims to practice coordination of law enforcement agencies
in the event of a terrorist attack on vital infrastructure facilities.
"In the second stage of the exercise, the anti-terrorism task groups of
the Armenian and Russian security services will set up a headquarters
to organize and conduct a joint operation to release hostages and
eliminate terrorists at the Metsamor NPP," said Colonel General Boris
Mylnikov, head of the Anti-Terrorist Center of the Commonwealth of
Independent States, a loose union of 11 former Soviet republics.
He said representatives of the CIS, the United States, France, Germany,
the United Kingdom, Greece, and anti-terrorist committees of the UN
Security Council, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization had been invited to
the exercise as observers.
RIA Novosti, Russia
Sept 25 2006
MOSCOW, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - A joint command and staff
anti-terrorism exercise at nuclear power facilities in southwest
Armenia will enter its active phase September 26, military officials
said Monday.
The Russian-Armenian exercise, Anti-Terror-2006, which started at a
nuclear plant in the city of Metsamor September 15 and will last until
September 29, aims to practice coordination of law enforcement agencies
in the event of a terrorist attack on vital infrastructure facilities.
"In the second stage of the exercise, the anti-terrorism task groups of
the Armenian and Russian security services will set up a headquarters
to organize and conduct a joint operation to release hostages and
eliminate terrorists at the Metsamor NPP," said Colonel General Boris
Mylnikov, head of the Anti-Terrorist Center of the Commonwealth of
Independent States, a loose union of 11 former Soviet republics.
He said representatives of the CIS, the United States, France, Germany,
the United Kingdom, Greece, and anti-terrorist committees of the UN
Security Council, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization had been invited to
the exercise as observers.