KYIV. Aug 20 (Interfax-AVN) - About 170 Russian and Ukrainian companies will implement a program for military-technical cooperation through 2017, currently under development, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said after the fifth meeting of the Russian-Ukrainian Interstate Commission's Security Subcommittee.
"We have discussed a wide range of issues pertaining to military-technical cooperation. And we have made the decision to prepare a program for military-technical cooperation until 2017 for signing," Serdyukov said.
"This program will promote mutually advantageous ties in developing, upgrading, repairing and scrapping weapons and military hardware," Serdyukov also said.
"It envisons mutual shipments of military products. More than 100 Russian and about 70 Ukrainian companies will be involved," he said.
"We have been successfully fulfilling plans to develop and manufacture the Antonov An-70 military-transport aircraft," the Russian defense minister said. "Its flight tests have got started. Talks are underway on the plane's joint assembly-line production in Russia," he said.