Eurocorps Commander meets in Brussels the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy

Brussels – 21st November 2007. This afternoon, Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Eurocorps Commander, paid a visit to the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, <linkhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Solana>Javier Solana, at the Council of the European Union, Justus Lipsius Building, in the Belgian capital.

Before the meeting, in which topics related to Eurocorps and the European structures of Security and Defence were discussed, General Pitarch met the Chairman of the European Union Military Committee, General Henri Bentégeat.

The Eurocorps Commander moved this morning to Brussels from the German Military Base of Wildflecken, Bavaria, where, from last 5th November on, 1,200 men and women of 14 different nationalities have deployed in order to carry out the exercise “Common Tenacity 2007”.

In the exercise’s scenario Eurocorps has developed a EU-led mission with access to NATO resources under a United Nations Security Council resolution. The purpose of this main exercise in 2007 was to train the headquarters’ personnel to put into practice their operational capability in planning and executing a multi-brigade operation in the framework of “Three-Block Operations”.

“Three-Block Operations” is a concept that describes the complex spectrum of challenges likely to be faced by soldiers on the modern battlefield. Soldiers may be required to conduct simultaneously full-scale military action, peacekeeping operations and humanitarian relief.

With this exercise, Eurocorps wants, once all NATO accreditations are achieved, to be ready to be deployed, if necessary and decided, under a European Union Military Structure.

 

Picture: © Council of the EU

 

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