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NATO is open and transparent in the way it exercises. In accordance with the Vienna Document on military transparency, all members of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, including Russia and Belarus, were invited to send observers to exercise Trident Juncture 2018 in Norway.
Observers were provided with briefings on the exercise and opportunities to observe forces and speak to troops. Footage shows observers visiting a camp of US Marines from 2nd Marine Division in Berkåk, Norway during the exercise.
NATO strongly supports efforts to build confidence and transparency on military activities and exercises. International rules on military exercises are respected in full. Allies respect the letter and spirit of the Vienna Document, and NATO regularly updates its schedule of military exercises online.
Video by NATO
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In-briefing session at US Marine camp in Berkåk. Military personnel from United States of America and Russia Federation (front row) and Russian Federation, Republic of Belarus, and Switzerland (second row).
Shot pans to reveal observers from Ukraine, Germany and Austria (front row) and Sweden and Austria (second row). Norwegian escort also sits in the front row.
00:00:22:34
Wide shot of briefing. United States Marine Corps (USMC) officer briefs observers, “Officers and staff NCOs, or Non-Commissioned Officers, from a variety of different NATO countries are integrated in the…(soundbite cuts)”
00:00:31:28
Tilt shot – Russian and Belarusian observer
00:00:37:38
German observer asks a question. Ukrainian observers sit to his right.
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Pan right to left: observers group receives briefing prior to inspection of the camp.
00:01:01:35
Russian observers
00:01:03:33
Observer group walks towards camera
00:01:24:41
Belarusian observer laughs with USMC member
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Swedish studies programme with US personnel, they move off.
00:01:42:31
Ukrainian observer takes a photo and walks towards group
00:01:51:42
Belarusian observer takes photo with Ukrainian and German observers in background
00:01:58:21
Wide shot and pan – communication equipment sits on top of a USMC vehicle while the group receives a briefing in the background
00:02:04:37
Pan – observers from (left to right) Germany, Sweden, Ukraine, Germany, Belarus, Switzerland receive a briefing from a US Marine, “I seen some vehicles break down, recovery’s been pretty good, no matter issues
here or there, I noted, when we put the snow chains on, it’s a little bit of a learning curve for our Marines, they’ve never done it before..”
00:02:15:14
Over the shoulder pan of observers from Belarus and Austria listening to US Marine. Left to right, observers from The Netherlands, Belarus, Ukraine, Austria, Serbia, Denmark, Austria; Norwegian escort, Canadian observer and two US Marines.
“We’ve been out here previously year before, they’ve done cold weather driving, driven the Vikings, some of the other vehicles. So the motor-T operators have a good experience.”
00:02:24:43
Observers from Belarus, Austria and Serbia have questions answered,
(USMC Briefer) “where have the rotational forces been engaged?”
(Serbian observer) “Yes.”
(USMC Briefer and Serbian observer at once), “Part of this exercise, yes.”
00:02:30:20
Wide pan of observer group and briefers in USMC camp.
00:02:33:43
Close up – Ukrainian observer
00:02:35:47
US Marine gives brief,
“On this side, unarmoured on this side. In the back you can see the BV-206 (note: this is a type of all-terrain vehicle or ATV) from the Norwegian…(soundbite cuts)”
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Belarusian observer takes a photo with Russian observer to his right while US Marine briefs.
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Austrian observer asks a question
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Group walks past USMC Humvee military vehicles
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Danish and Ukrainian observers take a photo of USMC camp
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Wide shot of group and USMC camp
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Russian observer chats with US Marines
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German observer chats to US Marine while Belarusian observer looks on
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Austrian observer chats to US Marine
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Observer group boards bus
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Russian observers bid farewell to US Marine and shake hands.
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SOUNDBITE (English), Ragnhild Hustad, Escort (NOR)
“In the Vienna document that Norway has signed, it says that when there is a big, large exercise, more than 13000 troops, that country has to invite observers to be present during the exercise, like you saw today, be able to visit all military units and other sub-units, to ask questions, get briefings about the military, personnel, what kind of military exercise this is and also the possibility to speak to commanders and troops.”
“We have now had about 20 observers from 13 different nations to visit us for two weeks and we’ve been travelling all over the exercise are to visit all the troops, all the big brigades and sub-units and for them to be able to ask questions. We were also at the amphibious landing on the 29 th of October, we were at the DV
(Distingushed Visitors) Day, we’ve also been flying in a helicopter to survey the whole area in order to see the scope and the scale of the exercise. NATO is a defensive alliance and our hope is that by showing the observers this exercise with the things that I just described, that this is an open and transparent exercise. And a non-threatening exercise.”
00:05:21:06
SOUNDBITE (English), Col Rudolf Zauner, OSCE Observer (AUS)
“The aim of the visit of the observers to the exercise Trident Juncture is to verify if it is a non-threatening exercise, according to the Vienna document, so we were invited by Norwegian, as the host nation, and they were organizing the programme for the entire period for the fourteen days. We saw all the units and sub-units from the higher command level down to the unit level and they gave us the interlocking briefings with all the statements, units, number of troops in the area and what is their main mission and out of this open and very transparent visit, we then came up to the conclusion that this is a quite non-threatening exercise where NATO is just trying to exercise its Article 5 tasks.”
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| Date Taken: | 11.05.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 11.06.2018 12:05 |
| Category: | B-Roll |
| Video ID: | 638150 |
| VIRIN: | 181105-F-ZZ999-624 |
| Filename: | DOD_106190234 |
| Length: | 00:06:33 |
| Location: | NO |
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