BRUNSSUM, The Netherlands – The opening ceremony of the JFC Brunssum (JFCBS)-led Partner Capacity Coherence Initiative 2025 (PCCI25) was held in Yerevan, Armenia, on 17th February, 2025.
NATO Partners are integral to success in many of the activities performed across the Alliance. Therefore, a common understanding of key concepts will ensure we can work more effectively at our common endeavours
The first of a series of four workshops to be conducted in Yerevan between February and July, the event was attended by 18 officers from Armenia, Austria and Georgia, all members of the NATO Partnership for Peace program.
The PCCI is a recurring training event designed to introduce NATO procedures and standards to NATO’s Partners. This PCCI is the first run by JFCBS, and is focussed on exercise planning. Attendance of PCCI25 was offered to all Partner Nations in the JFCBS portfolio. The students' theoretical knowledge learned from the four workshops will be put to the test in a demonstration of their new skills to close the final event in July.
“NATO Partners are integral to success in many of the activities performed across the Alliance. Therefore, a common understanding of key concepts will ensure we can work more effectively at our common endeavours. PCCI will contribute greatly to this,” said Major General Mark Pullan, JFCBS Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans, in a speech during the ceremony. “NATO aims to increase interoperability and Partners’ capability to cooperate in NATO-led operations, to support the transformation process of Partners’ military organisations, and to actively promote dialogue and consultation.”
As part of the event, Maj. Gen. Pullan met with the Major General Arthur Yeroyan, Deputy Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff, Armenia. He thanked Armenia for hosting the PCCI 25 event, and for 30 years of partnership with NATO. He went on to emphasise that sustained dialogue, shared experience, training activities and other programs will play a key role in continued development of interoperability between Armenia and NATO.
