Armenia will for the first time participate in Noble Partner 2017 exercises conducted by NATO.

This year’s drills will be held under motto “Strength through Partnership”.

“This time the exercise will be larger scale with the participation of 11 partner countries – Georgia, USA, UK, Germany, Turkey, Spain, Romania, Slovenia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine,” Georgian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

According to the statement, Noble Partner 2017 will launch at the end of July. The exercise is aimed to strengthen Georgia’s defence capability, improve interoperability between NATO allies and partner nations at all levels, built multinational, regional, combined and joint partnership capacity, as well as improve logistical and operative planning and execution aspects.  During the training Georgian military will conduct various live fire exercises together with foreign partners.