YEREVAN, September 26 (Itar-Tass) – Simulated “terrorists” will seek “to seize” an Armenian nuclear power station during large-scale operational and tactical anti-terror exercises that begin in the Republic of Armenia on Tuesday.
The exercises, codenamed Atom-Anti-Terror –2006 will involve the special services of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
Boris Mylnikov, chief of the CIS anti-terrorist center, has told Itar-Tass, “These are the first such exercises to be conducted in the CIS at a nuclear power industry facility”.
Invited to watch the exercises as observers are officials of G-8 countries, the Anti-Terrorist Unit of the Secretariat of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Counterterrorist Committee of the United Nations Security Council, the UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, and the regional anti-terrorist center of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
The United States, Greece, France, China, and the OSCE have confirmed their attendance. Out of CIS countries, members of the special services of Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan will participate in the Atom-Anti-Terror -2006 exercises, Mylnikov said.
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