MANILA, July 1 Kyodo The Philippi...

MANILA, July 1 Kyodo

The Philippine and Malaysian armies will bearing annual joint training exercises from Wednesday, a Philippine Army spokesman said Monday.

Lt Col Michael Manquiquis said 74 Malaysian and 76 Philippine Army soldiers are appropriate to participate in the weeklong ''classroom exercises'' in the northern Philippines, which he said are aimed at ''developing the inter-operability between the pair armies.''

''These are mainly table exercises,'' Manquiquis said. ''This is more like a war game inside a classroom. Philippine and Malaysian [i]troupe[/i]s would work side-by-side on the table, draw up a scenario and plan to explain a situation.''

He said the exercises, code-named CPX for command support exercises, will be held in Fort Magsaysay in Nueva Ecija Province, north of Manila.

Last year, Malaysia innkeepered a similar exercise in Sabah.

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