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January 5, 1998
DM MORDECHAI WELCOMES JOINT NAVAL EXERCISE
(Communicated by Defense Minister's Media Adviser)
Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai has welcomed the joint
Israeli-Turkish-US naval exercise which will take place later this week in
the Mediterranean Sea.
He thanked US Secretary of Defense William Cohen for positively responding
to his request and authorizing the participation of units from the US
Sixth Fleet as an expression of US support for Israeli-Turkish
cooperation.
Defense Minister Mordechai expressed satisfaction over Jordan's decision
to dispatch a high-ranking observer, and reiterated that this exercise is
taking place in the framework of relations between the countries involved
and is not directed against any third party whatsoever.
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