SOCHI. Oct 24 (Interfax) - Uganda and Russia are holding talks on deliveries of air defense systems, the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) told Interfax.
"The Republic of Uganda is viewing the creation of a multi-layered air defense shield as an avenue of cooperation with the Russian Federation. Bearing in mind the presence of terrorist threats, we are offering a wide choice of weapons and military hardware to our partners. This work is continuing," it said.
A Russia-Uganda agreement on military-technical cooperation entered into force on May 24, 2019.
"The parties carry out military-technical cooperation in the following spheres: supplies of arms, military hardware and other products, operation, maintenance, and upgrading of the supplied arms and military hardware," the document said.
Russia is ready to consider Uganda's request for air defense systems, FSMTC head Dmitry Shugayev told Interfax in October 2018.
"If concrete requests regarding military-technical cooperation are received, we will be ready to consider them," he said.
He stressed that Russia was open to further military-technical cooperation with Uganda.
"The republic has long been using Russian-made aircraft successfully, we are getting good feedback from the operators," Shugayev said.
Earlier several media reported that Uganda was interested in buying Russian air defense systems.
In 2012, Russia and Uganda signed a contract on the delivery of six Sukhoi Su-30MK2 fighter jets.