NATO trains 1,500 Iraqi security officials
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Brussels, Jan 19, IRNA
NATO-Iraq
In 2005, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) training mission in Iraq trained 1,000 mid-and senior-level officers in the country, and nearly 500 in NATO facilities in Europe.
"The Alliance aims to achieve the same results in 2006," said NATO Spokesman James Appathurai on Wednesday.
Trainers from the 26-member alliance have been working in Iraq since August 2004 to develop the country's security institutions.
In September 2005, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Jafaari opened the Iraqi Joint Staff College in Ar-Rustamiyah, on the outskirts of Baghdad, where officer training now is primarily taking place, noted a NATO statement.
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