PRESS RELEASE (94)82 16 September 1994
EXERCISE COOPERATIVE VENTURE 94
Under NATO's Partnership for Peace the maritime forces of ten NATO nations will join four Co-operation Partner countries in Exercise COOPERATIVE 94 from 28 September to 7 October 1994. The 10-day maritime exercise is designed to familiarize maritime forces of NATO and Co-operation Partners with each other and to enhance their capability to work together in future peace-keeping operations. This exercise will train participating maritime elements in command and control, tactics and basic maritime procedures. Planning has also covered in detail environmental and safety issues.
NATO nations participating are Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom and United States. Partner nations participating are Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden. Many other Allies and Partners will send observers to the exercise. More than 15 ships will conduct peace-keeping, humanitarian and search and rescue operations, together with a number of maritime aircraft, in the Skagerrak area of the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea.
The planning and execution of Exercise COOPERATIVE VENTURE 94 is overseen by the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT), Admiral Paul D. Miller (USNA), Headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, and conducted by NATO's Commander-in-Chief Eastern Atlantic (CINCEASTLANT), Admiral Sir Hugo White (UKNA) and his staff in Northwood, United Kingdom, in co-ordination with Allied Forces Northwest Europe in High Wycombe, United Kingdom and Headquarters Allied Forces North Europe in Norway. The commander at sea will be the Commander Netherlands Task Group, Commodore G.G. Hooft, RNLNA.
A Command Information Bureau (CIB) will be established at EASTLANT Headquarters, Northwood, UK, and a Press Information Centre (PIC) at Stavanger, Norway, with a satellite PIC at Kristiansand also in Norway, to provide
Public Information Services and to organize media facilities.
Chief Public Information SACLANT, Norfolk, Virginia, US, tel: int'l-1-804-445 32 27/32 35; Chief Public Information CINCEASTLANT, Northwood, UK, tel: int'l-44-923-83 73 36/76 34.
Original link:
http://www.nato.int/docu/review/1995/9503-3.htm
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RELEASE (94)70 18 August 1994
PFP/NACC EXERCISES - AUTUMN 1994
At the NATO Summit meeting in January this year, Alliance Heads of State and Government proposed joint peacekeeping field exercises with Partners beginning in 1994 in order to promote closer military cooperation and interoperability.
This autumn three such exercises have been planned. The first, Exercise Cooperative Bridge, will be conducted in Poland in the Biedrusko training area, near Poznan, from 12 to 16 September.
A maritime exercise, Cooperative Venture, will take place from 28 September to 7 October in the North Sea and in the Skagerak waters (southern part of the Baltic Sea - ed.)
The third exercise, Cooperative Spirit, will be held in the Netherlands in the Harskamp military training area, East of Utrecht, from 24 to 28 October.
In all three exercises NATO Allies and Partners will participate. Many of those not contributing military forces to these exercises will provide observers. In addition the UN, CSCE and WEU have been invited to observe the exercises. The main purpose of the exercises is to promote closer military cooperation and interoperability in the field of peacekeeping through the training and exercising of specific peacekeeping skills.
Prior to each exercise a specific press release will be issued with information about participants and other exercise detail. In addition to these three exercises many other bilateral and multilateral exercises involving Allies and Partners have already taken place in 1994, and more are scheduled for the autumn and for 1995.
Original link:
http://www.nato.int/docu/pr/1994/p94-070.htm
NATO Review:
http://www.nato.int/docu/review/1995/9503-3.htm
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NATO Maritime Exercise Cooperative Venture Sept 28, 1994
