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Multinational CIMIC (Civil-Military Cooperation)

Group in UN Integrated Peacekeeping Missions

Multinational CIMIC Group (MNCG) is a regimental level Multinational Unit established in 2002
(at that time called CIMIC Group South) Italy, the framework nation, Greece, Hungary, Portugal,
Romania and Slovenia contribute to this Unit , with personnel from all services of the Armed

Forces, including Army, Navy, Air Force and the Italian Carabinieri. Multinational CIMIC Group
is articulated on one Multinational Headquarters and an HQ Company who form the Multinational
side of MNCG. The Italian national side of MNCG includes one National Support Command and
one CIMIC Battalion, articulated on 4 Companies all capable of carrying out CIMIC activities. The
unit can operate across the entire spectrum of operations: from Collective Defence Operations
(NATO Art.V) to Crisis Response Operations, Stability Ops, Support to Humanitarian Relief and
Reconstruction & Development. In particular, MNCG is able to perform throughout all phases of an
operation, from Planning (Pre-Operational), to Conduct (Operational), to Transition (Transitional).
In each phase MNCG will operate in accordance with three basic functions (CIMIC Core
functions): the civilian military
liaison, the support to the civil
environment, the support to the force.
Being the Italian hub for CIMIC
matters, MNCG train and detach
specialized personnel deployed to the
main operations where the Italian
Armed Forces operate. Currently,
CIMIC specialists from MNCG are
deployed to implement the CIMIC
Core Functions in numerous
international contexts: in Kosovo,
Somalia, Djibouti, Afghanistan,

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