Brazilian instructor attends Peacekeeping Operations Course with other military personnel from 10 different countries in the Kingdom of Sweden.
Changing the 40o degrees Celsius for minus 10o degrees Celsius, 1st Lieutenant JOÃO MAURÍCIO DIAS LOPES VALDETARO, instructor of the Contingent Subsection, reported himself on March 15, in SWEDINT (Sweden International Training Center), in Kungsängen city, Kingdom of Sweden, to attend the United Nations Junior Officer Course – UNJOC.
Another EPCOEM was successfully concluded at CI Op Paz
Adaptability, persistence, decision, emotional balance and teamwork are, among others, qualities shown by the military personnel that accomplished, from 1 to 4 March, 2010, at the Peacekeeping Operations Training Center, the Unit Commander and Joint Staff Training for Peacekeeping Missions (EPCOEM 10/1) of the Haiti Battalion (BRABATT I -13) and of the Peacekeeping Engineering Company (BRAENGCOY 11).
A new group of Subunit and Platoon commanders comes to CI Op Paz and is ready for the mission in Haiti.
From 8 to 12 of March, 2010, the Peacekeeping Operations Training Center received 49 (forty-nine) military personnel for the subunit and platoon commander training course in peacekeeping missions of the 13th Contingent of Infantry Battalion and of the Marines Company and of the 11th Contingent of the Engineering Company of MINUSTAH.
From 06 to 08 of February, the Peacekeeping Operations Training Center held the intensive training of the 12thContingent “Brabatt-2” (MINUSTAH), to be deployed in Haiti after the request of the UN and the authorization of the Brazilian Senate concerning the disaster which took place in that friendly nation.
The activity was characterized by the updating and exchange of information by military personnel and the organizations (DPKO- OCHA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UNIC Rio, Movement without Border, Viva Rio, among others) present in the territory.
The Norwegian Deputy Minister of Defense, Mr. Espen Barth Eide, visited the Peacekeeping Operations Training Center on February 9, 2010. The objective of the visit was to deal with subjects of common interest between Brazil and Norway concerning defense and security, UN- Peacekeeping Operations.
On January 16, the Honorable Minister of Defense Nelson Azevedo Jobim accompanied by General Enzo Martins Peri visited the Peacekeeping Operations Training Center’s Commander (CI Op Paz), Colonel Pedro Aurélio de Pessôa, and the other members. And they were lectured on the work carried out by the unit.
On January 16, the Honorable Minister of Defense Nelson Azevedo Jobim accompanied by General Enzo Martins Peri visited the Peacekeeping Operations Training Center’s Commander (CI Op Paz), Colonel Pedro Aurélio de Pessôa, and the other members. And they were lectured on the work carried out by the unit.
