11.01.2016.
Meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation of the Republic of Serbia with the Russian Federation
Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic received today First Deputy Director of Russia's Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Andrey Boytsov and Russian representatives of the Serbia-Russia intergovernmental committee on military and technical cooperation. The meeting was attended by Acting Assistant Minister for Material Resources Nenad Miloradovic and Chief of the Department for Defence Technology Major General Bojan Zrnic.They discussed the improvement of military-technical cooperation, with the goal of developing the capabilities of the Serbian Armed Forces and concretization of joint projects in the field of defence industry.
After talks with Defence Minister, the work meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation of the Republic of Serbia with the Russian Federation continued, which began this morning in the Material Resources Sector of the Ministry of Defence. The meeting was attended, besides the representatives of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces, by representatives of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation, as well as representatives of enterprises and banks from the Russian Federation.
At the meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation, participants discussed equipping of the Serbian Armed Forces with arms and military equipment of Russian production, improvement of capacities for maintenance of aircraft platforms and air defence systems of Russia origin in the Republic of Serbia, as well as the promotion of cooperation between defence industry enterprises of the two countries.Moreover, the plan of the visit envisages that the representatives of the Russian delegation visit the next day scientific research and overhaul facilities of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces and part of Serbian defence industry companies.
