Cooperative Best Effort 2006 military exercise will be held within Partnership for Peace NATO program in Germany and Bosnia and Herzegovina May 12-15. Yesterday a 4-day planning conference started in Tbilisi. As RA Defense Minister's Spokesman, colonel Seyran Shahsuvaryan told PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, lieutenant colonel Samvel Atoyan and two officers departed for the Georgian capital to participate in the conference. Shahsuvaryan noted that if Armenia's representatives take part in the planning conference they will take part in the exercise as well. "Armenia's participation in the Cooperative Best Effort 2006 depends on the host state," he added. To remind, Cooperative Best Effort NATO exercise was conducted in Armenia in 2003.