Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey have launched headquarter exercises that will center on operations to safeguard the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. \"The headquarter exercises are taking place in Tbilisi and will continue for a week. They involve 52 specialists from the three nations\' military agencies and special services,\" a spokesman for the Georgian Defense Ministry told Interfax. \"The main objective of the exercises is to practice our joint action program that can be applied if any crises erupt, primarily in the event of any terrorist threat to the oil pipeline,\" he said. (Interfax)