A series of large military exercises involving 2.000 American soldiers and 2.000 soldiers from the Macedonian army, will be conducted between late May and early July, the Government announced today.

The Resolute Strike exercise will include 400 military vehicles. Also invited are small contingets from Albania, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Lithuania.

The goal of the exercise is to achieve interoperability between the armed forces of the participant countries, and to allow increased contribution to future NATO operations, the Government informed.