Successful Norwegian-Russian naval exercises
The POMOR-2010 exercises are regarded as a success, both from the Russian and the Norwegian side. Today the Norwegian frigate “Otto Sverdrup” left the Northern Fleet’s main base Severomorsk.
The first joint Norwegian-Russian naval exercises since 1994 formally ended on Saturday. In course of the previous week, the Northern Fleet’s anti-submarine destroyer “Severomorsk” and “Otto Sverdrup” have sailed along the coast from Bergen to Severomorsk. Along the way they have trained on maneuvering, communication, shooting, search and rescue and anti-piracy combat.
Commander of the National Joint Headquarters General Bernt Brovold is very pleased with the results:
- We have reached all the relative ambitious goals we had set for ourselves before the exercises, he said to the Norwegian Armed Forces’ web site.
Also Chief of Staff and Second in Command of the Northern Fleet Vladimir Korolyev underlines the good relationship Norway and Russia have developed:
- The level of cooperation that the Russian and Norwegian sailors have shown confirms what President Medvedev said in Oslo earlier this year, that our relationship is good. - The border between Russia and Norway is the most peaceful of all borders, he added.
According to TV Murman, in the next joint Norwegian-Russian exercises also submarine forces are planned to take part.
