Australia to Host PSI Exercise

Australia is scheduled to host a multinational military exercise next week under the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative, Agence France-Presse reported today (see GSN, Aug. 17, 2005).

The program is based on a series of bilateral agreements and aimed at interdicting illicit WMD-related cargo on the high seas. Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States are expected to participate in Pacific Protector 06 on April 6, the Australian Defense Department announced.

The drill is expected to consist of the interception of a ship suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction, as well as land exercises around Darwin, Australia, the department said in a statement (Agence France-Presse, March 27).

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