Representatives of the Belarusian Armed Forces will participate in monitoring of the Aurora 17 military exercise in Sweden and the Dragon 2017 drills in Poland, the country’s Defense Ministry said on September 25.
“Two representatives of the Belarusian Armed Forces will participate in monitoring of the Aurora 17 international exercise in Sweden and the Dragon 2017 international exercise in Poland each,” the Belarusian Defense Ministry said on its website.
Some 12,000 servicemen will be involved in Aurora 17, while about 17,000 in the Dragon 2017, the ministry said.
A Belarusian inspection team comprised four people will inspect the stated area in Poland in accordance with the Vienna Document on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures of 2011. “The inspection’s objective is control of military activities, stated by the Republic of Poland, conducted as part of the Dragon 2017 exercise,” the Defense Ministry said.
Apart from that, in accordance with the Treaty on Open Skies, a joint Romanian-German mission will conduct an observation flight over the territory of Belarus and Russia in Romania’s Antonov An-30B aircraft on September 25-29. The flight’s objective is control of military activities in the monitored states.
