SEESIM 2004

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SEESIM 2004 WHITE CELL MEETING 10 NOV 04
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ALBANIA 10 NOV 04

• Todays Highlights
•  National Assets Used On Dam Disaster.
•  Developing Plan For Assistance Receipt.
•  Determine Assistance Shortfalls.
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• Next Days Highlights
•   Continue Disaster Relief Operations.
•   Coordinate Assistance Delivery And Receipt

• Observations
• EOC Functioning Well And Anticipating
  Requirements

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BULGARIA 10 NOV 04 (1 of 2)

• TODAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• Continuation of the work on the events included
  in the scenario
• Work on new MSEL injections
• - crash of the power supply in Northeast
  Bulgaria
• - construction of bridge over river Yantra
• - influenza epidemic
• - preparation of the DVD.

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BULGARIA 10 NOV 04 (2 of 2)

• NEXT DAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• The Exercise continues
• DVD
• OBSERVATIONS
• Exercise communication system operates normally
• Discrepancy between the activities described in
  the
• messages and those reflected in JTLS.

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CROATIA 10 NOV 04

• TODAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• Exchanging of all kind of forms and messages
  (CMEP procedures) were continuing
• NEXT DAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• exercise is going to continue with coordinating
  activities (border crossing forms)
• OBSERVATIONS
• procedures goes smoothly
• EOC performed better

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FYROM 10 NOV 04

• TODAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• Exercise was executed according to MSEL
• Received 1 offer of assistance msg and 1
  acceptance msg
• Sent 2 notification msg, 1 coordination msg, 1
  request msg and 1 SITREP
• We have an excellent presentation about the
  Swedish Rescue Service Agency
• NEXT DAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• Continuation of the Exercise
• Activities connected with DVD and participation
  in DV VTC
• OBSERVATIONS
• Excellent cooperation and support from the
  colleagues from Sweden and Turkey
• EOC is responding properly to all inputs

Turkey recognizes Macedonia with its
constitutional name
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GREECE10 NOV 04 (1 of 2)

• TODAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• Events as described in todays scenario
• 1 Notification message, 1 situation report
  message
• 1 coordination message (repeated)
• 2 offer of assistance messages
• NEXT DAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• Events as described in scenario for day 11112004
  and DVDay

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GREECE10 NOV 04 (2 of 2)

• OBSERVATIONS
• Unnecessary information flow to a minimum.
• Some notification messages are not of relevance
  to an international assistance exercise.
• Use of coordination message very good (but we
  have to try to pay attention to them).
• Good Cooperation between civil protection and
  military personnel at the national level in order
  to decide on formulation of possible offers of
  assistance.

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ITALY 10 NOV 04 (1 of 2)

• TODAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• Bomb attack in Milan, central railway station
• More familiar with the exercise procedure due to
  the experience of last two days
• Manage the assistance resources coming from other
  EOCs regarding the problems related to the
  interoperability of the different teams and
  equipments
• Interoperability guidelines are needed among the
  participating countries

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ITALY 10 NOV 04 (2 of 2)

• NEXT DAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• to drive the EOC on the way of discussion about
  the activities carried on during this exercise
• to summarize the positive and negative aspects
• OBSERVATIONS
• the huge number of injected items didnt allow
  the EOC to focus on some aspects of the
  activities (e.g. civil protection aspects,
  international cooperation)

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ROMANIA 10 NOV 04 (1 of 2)

• TODAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• 1 message ( 6 additional messages) about the
  effects of terrorist activities and the influence
  of bad whether conditions
• Coordination messages for national and
  international activities
• Developed activities related to
  counter-terrorism and border security
• Preparations for DV Day

• NEXT DAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• Optimize the resources mangement in order to be
  ready for next injects
• Events according to the scenario and to the
  exercise schedule for 11 Nov

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ROMANIA 10 NOV 04 (2 of 2)

• OBSERVATIONS
• Exercise communication system operates normally
• The JTLS database unit responded to the
  requirements of the EOC
• The request of Info manager for sending
  Acceptance of offer for assistance even the
  offer wasnt accepted is about to be solved.

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SLOVENIA 10 NOV 04

• TODAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• Exercise is running better and better,
  especially message flow is satisfactory.
• EOC preformed on national and international
  level. All activities
• were taken according to national plane crash
  procedures.
• NEXT DAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• Ready for new MSEL injects.
• We expect lot of international coordination
  (with States and International organizations).
• Review of existing procedures present big
  challenge for us.
• OBSERVATIONS
• JTLS Data base doesnt allow us to play
  realistically with civil units.

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TURKEY 10 NOV 04 (1 of 2)

• TODAYS HIGHLIGHT
• ZADEK terrorists had attacked simultanously to a
  dam,a refinery,a subway and Atatürk Airport. All
  the national reactions have taken place to
  overcome the situation.
• Turkish Humanitarian Aid and Supply Convoys have
  reached to Romania, Croatia and Macedonia.
• Two Turkish SAR teams have arrived Bulgaria.

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TURKEY 10 NOV 04
TURKEY 10 NOV 04 (2 of 2)

• NEXT DAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• Consequance management efforts will continue to
  overcome the situation by means of national
  capabilities and regional coordination and
  support.
• OBSERVATIONS
• Consequences of terrorist attacks have
  continuously and effectively been evaluated
  during the third day of exercises in TU EOC.

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SEEBRIG 10 NOV 04

• TODAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• 27 Messages received. work on all those messages
  assessing
• our capabilities
• - Notification 18
• - Request 4
• - Assistance Offering 5
• - No significant SEEBRIG actions to report
• NEXT DAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• SEEBRIG EOC can offer to all Sites
• - Earth moving operations
• - Cleaning transportation routes of debris
• - Temporary shelter for personnel and animals
• - Road construction and repair, building
  renovations.
• - Limited de-mining operation and unexploded
  ordnance disposal
• - Assistance, set up refugees and displaced
  people camps.
• OBSERVATIONS
• None at this point

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MSEL 10 NOV 04

• TODAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• Additional events injected (4 per day)
• 69 events injected today
• NEXT DAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• Tempo of the exercise slows down
• Distinguished Visitors Day
• OBSERVATIONS
• Coordination went well today
• 232 messages have been sent during the exercise
• Approximately 185 MSELs have been sent during the
  exercise

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INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 10 NOV 04

• TODAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• No reported problem with the information flow.
• No comment came from countries on Event Matrix.
  So we are assuming that every report originated
  are in the list.
• NEXT DAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• Expect to get over with the report numbering,
  naming and referencing issues.
• OBSERVATIONS
• Countries should not be sending their internal
  messages from ECGFwd to ECGMain. The internal
  messages should not be numbered with ECG Report
  Numbering System.
• Still some problems with report numbering, file
  naming and referencing. (But fewer than previous
  days)

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INTERAGENCY 10 NOV 04 (1 of 2)

• TODAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• WHO and IAEA responded to requests from BU and
  IT
• Coordination Message should be used for
  arranging transport between nations or
  organizations
• SI to IT, but IT wanted a Request Message
• BU to GR was correct
• Acceptance Message should be timely and used for
  and responses
• HR Requested assistance and received 4 Offers on
  D-1, but Accepted on D3
• RO used Coordination not Acceptance
  (non-acceptance) of AL offer

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INTERAGENCY 10 NOV 04 (2 of 2)

• NEXT DAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• The end of the exercise
• OBSERVATIONS
• Standard messages and procedures
• Work well when they are followed
• Contribute to situational awareness within the
  region and interagency community

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AAR 10 NOV 04

• TODAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• Received observation forms from 7 of 9 nations
  and the IA cell
• Provided part one of Facilitated After-Action
  Review briefing to national sites for comment
• NEXT DAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• Continue collection of observations and
  preparation of Facilitated After-Action Review
  slides
• REMINDER Sustain and Improve slides are due
  1400 GMT Thursday
• OBSERVATIONS
• Not much activity in the area of
  counter-proliferation
• Turkey recognizes the Republic of Macedonia
  by its constitutional name.

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TECHNICAL OPS 10 NOV 04

• TODAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• JTLS UP RUNNING,
• NO COMMUNICATION PROBLEM
• NEXT DAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• JTLS START TIME 0900 (ISTANBUL TIME)
• OBSERVATIONS
• GOOD REACTION TO MSEL EVENTS FROM EACH COUNTRY.

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EXERCISE OPERATIONS 10 NOV 04

• TODAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• FINAL PREPARATIONS FOR DV DAY
• BEGAN PREPARATIONS FOR AAR ON FRIDAY
• NEXT DAYS HIGHLIGHTS
• REGULAR VTC AT 0900 and 1700
• DV DAY VTC AT APPROXIMATELY 1030
• ENDEX!!! (END of EXERCISE)
• OBSERVATIONS
• EXCELLENT RESPONSE FROM ECG-FWD CELLS