MOSCOW. Oct.29. (Interfax-AVN) - The Rosoboronexport federal state-owned unitary enterprise, Russia's major arms trader, and Far East Investment Company JSO concluded a general agreement on mutual co-operation on Monday.
Director General Andrei Belyaninov signed the agreement on behalf of Rosoboronexport; the Far East Investment Company was represented by Director General Oleg Mikhailenko. Among those present at the signing was the Russian president's envoy to the Far Eastern federal fistrict Konstantin Pulikovsky.
The agreement is part of the programme carried on by Rosoboronexport in order to increase the export potential of Russia's defence industry. The document determines principal means and methods of the co-operation between the two enterprises, with its main objective being an increase in the output of exported products manufactured in the Far Eastern federal district.
The activities of the Far East Investment Company are aimed at shaping a favourable investment climate in top-priority and socially important branches of the Far Eastern economy.