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‘Shant-2015’ strategic command and staff exercises being held on September 3-6 are scheduled drills aimed at harmonizing the activities of relevant state bodies of Armenia in case of military operations, the spokesman for Armenian Defense Ministry Artsrun Hovhannisyan said during a meeting with reporters today.

He stressed that the information about so-called ‘evacuation’ of the border regions’ population does not correspond to reality. In the spokesman’s words, all those measures are part of the drills.

“Thus, a large training base will be created in Tavush province. Space will be allocated for beds, and evacuation zones will be determined, that is, there will be preparations for population’s evacuation in case of war,” A. Hovhannisyan said.

To remind, during a briefing held by Armenian Defense Ministry’s Defense Policy Department yesterday, military attaches of foreign states accredited to Armenia and representatives of international organizations were provided with information about ‘Shant-2015’ military command and staff exercises due in Armenia on September 3-6, Armenian Defense Ministry said. Officials of Armenian Defense Ministry stressed that Shant-2015 are planned military exercises of all-republican significance and aim to check the mobilization readiness of state and military command bodies in the process of the state’s immediate preparations for defense and repulsion of an aggression, the ability to bring forces into a higher level of readiness, and to raise the level of interaction and coordination of actions. Those present were told that given the military-political situation around Armenia and in adjacent territories, the enemy and the situation in the drills’ fictional scenario were brought into line with reality as much as possible.