MOSCOW. Feb 17 (Interfax) - The Russian Defense Ministry is hoping to strengthen its military cooperation with Uruguay in the field of the navy and aviation.
"With Uruguay, supplies are and were: automobile vehicles, special vehicles, off-road vehicles, small arms, grenade-launching equipment," Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin told journalists in Moscow on Thursday.
These weapons and military equipment are intended, in particular, for Uruguayan troops participating in foreign peacekeeping missions, he said.
"We are also promoting other types of equipment. We have prospects both in the navy and the aviation segment," Fomin said.
On Thursday the two countries signed an intergovernmental agreement on defense cooperation as part of the official visit of Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez.
"These are new prospects for cooperation between our defense ministries, between our armed forces," Fomin said.
Under the agreement, Russia and Uruguay will develop cooperation in the information sphere, in military specialist training and in sharing experience in the field of military medicine, cartography and topography, he said.
"Participating in possible joint peacekeeping missions or relevant measures to counter all possible modern-day threats such as terrorism, piracy, other modern-day challenges to humankind," Fomin said of the signed agreement.