MOSCOW. April 9 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia and Slovakia will complete finalizing details of a project to modernize MIG-29 Fulcrum warplanes used by the Slovak army in April or May, Slovak Economics Minister Lubomir Harach said on Tuesday.
Harach was speaking to reporters following a session of a Russian-Slovak intergovernmental commission on trade-economic, technological, and cultural cooperation in Moscow.
A part of the funds for the modernization project will be provided as compensation for Russia's debt to Slovaka, Harach said.
Head of the Russian government administration Igor Shuvalov, who chairs the commission on behalf of Russia, told Interfax that there was a solid basis for development of bilateral military- technical cooperation with Slovakia.
He said he was hoping that the MIG-29 modernization project would be a component of the future program of military-technical cooperation between Russia and Slovakia, not a separate project.