Massive Military Drills Near Russian Border Not Provocation – Armed Forces

Wednesday, March 18, 2015
By Paul Martin

SputnikNews.com
18.03.2015

For the past 10 days, Norway has conducted its largest military exercise in decades in the northern Finnmark region. Norway suspended all its military cooperation with Moscow in March 2014.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Norway’s massive military exercise near the Russian border has nothing to do with current tensions between the two countries, a spokesman for the Norwegian Armed Forces told Sputnik on Wednesday, as the drill comes to an end.

For the past 10 days, Norway has conducted its largest military exercise in decades in the northern Finnmark region. Some 5,000 personnel have participated in the drill, dubbed Joint Viking.

“The decision to practice in Finnmark was taken in autumn 2013, long before the security situation changed,” Lieutenant Colonel Ivar Moen said.

The lieutenant noted that all member states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), including Russia, were notified of the Joint Viking drill in accordance with the Vienna Document.

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