SKOPJE. - A peacekeeping brigade from Armenia’s MOD consisting of 39 peacekeepers left for Skopje, Macedonia on Friday in order to participate in the Cooperative Longbow – Lancer 2012 exercises in the framework of the NATO Partnership for Peace Program.

The Cooperative Longbow is the exercise command phase, during which participants will gain skills in staff procedures and operations management and governance issues, starting from the reception of military command, its application in headquarters, and the distribution of tasks between units.

The field exercise phase is called Cooperative Lancer. During this phase of training peacekeepers will master patrolling, accompanying vehicles, maintaining control checkpoints and other skills.

The Armenian peacekeeping brigade will return to Armenia on May 30.