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EXERCISE UNITED ACCORD 2017

From 17 to 30 May 2017, the
conduct phase of the
UNITED ACCORD 2017
(UA17) exercise took place
in Accra (Ghana) at the Kofi
Annan International
Peacekeeping Training
Center (KAIPTC).
Italy and Carabinieri in
particular took part with
Major Alessandro Criscitiello
- 3rd Section Commander,
Training Department,
CoESPU - in the EXCON as
Police Advisor / Police Scripter for the Joint Exercise Control Group and in the Training Audience
as the MINUSMA Regional Command East Police Liaison Officer with a focus on United Nations
Police activities in terms of Formed Police Units /
Individual Police Officers.
UA17 has, in various respects, been involved around
the 600 subjects, including civilians and militaries
from several nations such as Benin, Burkina Faso,
Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Chad, Gabon, Ghana,
Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger,
Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Belgium,
Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, United Kingdom
and International Organizations as: MINUSMA,
ECOWAS Standby Force, UN Peacekeeping
Strategic Partnership DPKO/DFS, UN Humanitarian
Commission for Refugees, Office for Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs, ICRC, CoESPU, EU
Training Mission-Mali.
UA17, conducted by USARAF and set in the real
scenario of the MINUSMA Mission's Eastern Sector
in Mali is a Command Post Exercise / Field Training
Exercise, aimed to exercise the interoperability
between all partners and enhance their capabilities
to execute sector headquarters and subordinate
national contingent headquarters responsibilities as

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