MOSCOW, November 29 (AVN) - Presidium of the League for the Advancement of the Russian Defence Industry Enterprises has approved of the agenda for the elective conference to be held December 5 in the Rosaviakosmos building in the Shchepkina street, 42, Moscow, Leo Arkhiereyev, the league executive director, told the Military News Agency.
Anatoly Dolgolaptev, president of the league, will make a report at the conference. Alexei Shulunov, vice-president of the league, will speak on financial situation in the defence industry and payment of the state debt to enterprises. Givi Dzhandzhgava, another vice-president, will make a report on economy of the defence industry enterprises. Vice-President Vladimir Rubanov is to dwell on the practise of fulfilling Russian laws in the sphere of guarding intellectual property at the defence industry enterprises. Yuri Spichenok, president of the general machine-building industry trade unions, will cover social problems of the industry.
Over 300 directors of plants, R&D institutes and design bureaux will attend the conference. Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov, Minister of Industry, Science and Technologies Alexander Dondukov, Nikolai Ryzhkov, chairman of the International Union of Commodity producers, heads of defence industry agencies and trade unions are invited.
The league has been organising polls among the defence industry leaders and working out positions on principal issues for the past six years, Anatoly Dolgolaptev told the Agency. According to him, many defence industry chiefs consider control through numerous agencies is not good for the industry. During the forthcoming conference the league leadership is going to work out a unified opinion on this problem and call for handing the authority over defence industry to the Ministry of Industry, Science and Technologies. This is the ministry to play a key role in forming and administering unified scientific, industrial and structural policy, controlling the state order on development and production of ordnance and weapons, Dolgolaptev said. The agencies themselves should not be dismissed as it became customary of late, but be transformed into powerful state companies to control production processes and reform of the industries, he stressed.