Egypt’s State Information Service announced on Sunday the commencement of a Multilateral Military Exercise at the Mohamed Naguib Base in the governate of Marsa Matrouh.
According to the government agency, special forces from Greece and Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and the UAE will train alongside their Egyptian counterparts in a multi-day drill.
Delegations from Jordan, the USA, Democratic Republic of Congo and Bahrain will be present in the capacity of observers.
Egyptian Major General Khaled Ahmed Shawky head of the armed forces’ training authority greeted attendees on behalf of Defence Minister Mohamed Zaki and Chief of Staff Osama Askar.
The Saudi Press Agency reports that spokesman for the Egyptian Armed Forces, Colonel Gharib Abdelhafeez gave a statement on the drill’s training objectives on Sunday.
“[The several days exercise] includes procedures for the integration and acquaintance of the participating forces to unifying concepts, an exhibition of weapons and equipment used in training, as well as lectures in the fields of cybersecurity and international humanitarian law.”
Considered major non-NATO allies, Egypt, Bahrain and Jordan share an intimate military relationship with the defence pact and with that access to technologies and infrastructure whose dissemination is heavily monitored.
From priority access to military surplus, participation in counter-terrorism initiatives and even the purchase of depleted uranium munitions.
Wargames and drills among aligned states have increased in frequency over the past few years as relations between Eastern and Western powers continue to suffer.
Earlier this month Greece and Egypt took part in joint naval drills in the Mediterranean with the aim of “preparing the navies of Egypt and Greece to work homogeneously within a joint force charged with maintaining maritime security to confront threats to international freedom of navigation and the flow of global trade”
