SUKHOI COMPANY TO HOST CONFERENCE ON AIRCRAFT DEVELOPMENT

MOSCOW, January 23 (AVN) - The Sukhoi aircraft production enterprise will host a conference on development of promising aircraft and implementation of export contracts on Tuesday, a competent source in the Defence Ministry told the Military News Agency.

The conference will be chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov. It is scheduled to begin at 16.00 Moscow time (1300 GMT). The company's restructuring will be high on the agenda too.

Organisers of the conference sent invitations to Minister of Industry, Science and Technologies Alexander Dondukov, Director-General of the Russian Aviation and Space Agency Yuri Koptev, Deputy Defence Minister Mikhail Dmitriyev, Air Force Commander Anatoly Kornukov, Director-General of the Rosoboronexport state-owned arms exporter Andrei Belyaninov, and Deputy Minister of Property Relations Nikolai Gusev.