MOSCOW. Feb 7 (Interfax) - The sixth meeting of the Russia-Brazil Cooperation Commission due in Brasilia in February will highlight military-technical and agricultural issues, Russian Ambassador to Brazil Sergei Akopov said in an interview with the Voice of Russia radio.
"We are preparing an important bilateral event - the sixth meeting of the high-level Russian-Brazilian Cooperation Commission to be attended by Brazilian Vice-President Michel Temer and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Agricultural and military-technical cooperation will be on the agenda. The intergovernmental commission will convene in Brasilia on February 20," he said.
"A large Russian delegation of several ministers and deputy ministers will come to work at relevant groups for economic and scientific-technological cooperation," he said.
A Roscosmos delegation led by the agency head, Vladimir Popovkin, will also take part in the commission's activity, the diplomat said. "He (Popovkin) will attend the opening of a measurement collection station of the Russian Glonass network. The first-ever station of the kind outside of Russia will open on the premises of the Brasilia University. Plus, two contracts will be signed on the deployment of two more Glonass measurement collection stations," Akopov said.