MOSCOW. Dec 10 (Interfax) - Russia will help modernize Cuban defense enterprises and will transfer relevant technologies, deputy head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) Anatoly Punchuk told Interfax.
"Cuba has plants of its own, but it is still necessary to upgrade their competences, to provide training, and to transfer our technologies. They have enough weapons," Punchuk said.
The program of cooperation in this area remains valid but needs an adjustment, he said.
"We are rendering every kind of support. The program of our military-technical cooperation has been signed, it remains valid, but will be adjusted and specified; everything stays in force," Punchuk said.
It was reported in February 2019 that Moscow and Havana had signed an agreement on a 38-million-euro loan to Cuba for military-technical procurements.
The office of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov, who co-chairs the Russian-Cuban Intergovernmental Commission, said back then, "The funds will ensure the sustainable development of Cuba's military industrial complex in the coming years."