September 21, 2001
Tanzanian and French military officials Friday ended a final planning meeting for multinational peacekeeping exercises to be held here in February, the French embassy here said.
The week-long Final Planning Conference (FPC) was also attended by delegates from Djibouti and La Reunion. "This is the last preparatory stage for the multinational exercise code-named Tanzanite-RECAMP 3," Rear-Admiral Raymond Masson of the French Joint Planning Staff told a news conference here.
He said the military exercises, in which more than 25 countries will participate, will take place in Dar es Salaam and Tanzania's eastern coastal region of Tanga.
The Reinforce African Peacekeeping Capacities (RECAMP) project is a French initiative designed to enhance the peacekeeping capacity of troops on a continent prone to civil strife.
RECAMP is seen as complementing the US-led African Crisis Response Inititiave, a bilateral programme under which the United States trains and equips troops from selected African countries with a view to improving peacekeeping capabilities.
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