Moldova has been selected for the second time to conduct a multinational exercise within the frameworks of the Partnership for Peace Programme. The multinational exercise will be organised at Bulboaca training ground from July 28 to August 10, 2007. The exercises called Medceur 2007 will train skills of quick response mobile medical groups in liquidating results of natural disasters. A conference attended by over 60 specialists of medical services from 13 NATO countries and signatories of the Partnership for Peace Programme was held at the Ministry of Defence from 15 to 18 May to plan the military-medical multinational exercise. According to lieutenant colonel Iurie Dominic, co-director of the exercise on behalf of Moldova, aspects related to the concept of exercise, scenario and active phases of the exercises are to be completed at the final conference. A number of humanitarian projects, funded by the US Government, related to the social and medical insurance of population from several Moldovan settlements, will be also implemented as part of this exercise. For his part, Col. Mary Peterson, co-director of the exercise on behalf of the Commandment of US Forces in Europe, stated that the experience gained by military doctors in the armies of NATO countries and of the Partnership for Peace Programme signatories, will contribute to developing interoperability at tactical level between the multinational medical forces by applying the basic principles while providing medical assistance, standardised methods used by joint medical teams while performing international peacekeeping operations etc. Specialists of medical services from Armenia, Albania, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Serbia, the USA, Ukraine, Moldova, as well as representatives of Commandment of US Forces in Europe participated in the conference. The first exercises of this kind, “Cooperative Lancer – Longbow 2006”, in which about one thousand of military men from 21 states of the world took part, were held in September 2006.