MOSCOW. March 24 (Interfax-AVN) - Member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) plan to create international research and production enterprises of military products.
"Work on a draft of a relevant agreement has been completed," a source with the CSTO secretariat told Interfax-AVN on Tuesday.
Such enterprises will help resolve such issues as unfair competition between defense companies of CSTO members, product quality management, as well as shaping a single military and technical policy and simplifying the military and technical cooperation mechanism, an explanatory note to the document reads. Such enterprises will also promote the development of national defense companies, it reads.
These enterprises will be formed at the decision of the Collective Security Council, the CSTO supreme body, at the recommendation of the Interstate Military and Economic Cooperation Commission, the draft agreement reads.
The draft aims to help fulfill tasks before the Interstate Military and Economic Cooperation Commission and its decisions made on May 25, 2008, the source said. The draft will soon be forwarded for discussion to the CSTO Permanent Council and then to CSTO members for domestic procedures, he added.
The document creates a legal base for multilateral research and production enterprises in the CSTO which are aimed at forming single chains of producing, preparing, updating and scrapping military products, he said.
The CSTO consists of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.