Estonia to Participate in NATO Crisis Management Exercise
04.03.2010
Estonia will be participating in a NATO Crisis Management Exercise
(CMX 2009) from 4-10 March. The purpose of the exercise is to practice
the NATO crisis management process for areas outside the Euro-Atlantic
region, in which a worsening security situation will be accompanied by
attacks on UN peacekeeping missions, humanitarian crises, a nation
threatening its neighbour, regional conflicts, and terrorism. The
scenario for the staff exercise, which will take place in real time, is
fictional.
The CMX is a regularly scheduled NATO Crisis Management Exercise,
the goal of which is to practice political, military and civil
organisation and crisis management procedures in order to be able to
support NATO consultations and the collective decision-making process
in a crisis situation.
Another aim of the exercise is to practice consultation procedures
with the NATO partner states and international organisations
participating in the exercise. Participating in CMX 2009 will be all 28
NATO member states, the partner states Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan,
Finland, Georgia, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, Macedonia and Ukraine,
as well as Israel from the Mediterranean Dialogue countries. In
addition, the sub-organisations of the UN, the International Committee
of the Red Cross, the European Union, the Organisation for Security and
Co-operation in Europe, and the International Organisation for
Migration will be participating. About 2 500 will be involved in the
exercise.
Institutions from Estonia that will be included in the exercise are
the Foreign Ministry, Estonia’s Permanent Representation to NATO, the
Defence Ministry, the Defence Forces, the State Chancellery, the
Security Police, the Ministry of Economics and Communications, the
Interior Ministry, the Rescue Board, the Finance Ministry, and the
Justice Ministry.
This is Estonia’s fourth time participating in the CMX exercise (earlier exercises took place in 2005, 2006 and 2008).
