Croatia, NATO stage joint military exercise
08:55, October 02, 2007

Croatia and NATO troops started a joint military exercise in Croatia on Monday, news reaching Tirana from Zagreb reported.

A total of 8,000 troops from 12 NATO countries and 250 Croatian soldiers will take part in the exercise, code-named "Noble Midas", the biggest ever held in Croatia.

The NATO troops are from Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, the United States, Spain, Turkey and Britain, while Canada, Albania and Montenegro will participate as observers.

The 12-day exercise, involving 40 ships, six submarines, 29 fighter jets, 23 helicopters and nine other aircraft, is meant to train NATO's elite response force and test Croatia's readiness to join the alliance.

NATO has built a response force composed of 2,5000 NATO countries' elite troops which would be deployed on occasion of emergencies.

Croatia has been longing to join NATO for years. It expects to receive an invitation to the club at NATO's summit next spring in Bucharest, Romania.

Monday's exercise was met by a group of demonstrators. Some 30 protesters staged a peaceful rally outside the Croatian defense ministry in Zagreb.

They said that the exercise would damage the environment and hurt the image of Croatia as a tourist destination. The protesters, clad in bathing suits, held banners saying: "We want tourists, not terrorists."

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