MOSCOW. Nov 22 (Interfax-AVN) - The Collective Security Council is considering the possibility of involving several Russian defense industry enterprises in the production and supplies of Russian arms and military hardware on preferential prices to nations signatories to the Collective Security Treaty, the council's secretary general Valery Nikolayenko said on Friday.
"In order to work out the mechanism of implementing the agreement on the main principles of military-technical cooperation between the nations signatories to the Collective Security Treaty passed in November 2001, the secretariat is considering the involvement of several defense industry enterprises that will produce and supply Russian arms and military hardware on prices of production plants in the framework of the Collective Security Treaty," Nikolayenko told Interfax- Military News Agency.
According to him, this may be done "to create conditions for the defense industry revival in the framework of the Collective Security Treaty." "Former defense industry enterprises located on the territory of nations signatories to the treaty are to be involved in the process of producing and supplying arms and military hardware to our partners in the treaty," he stressed.
Such enterprises will primarily master "repairs and modernization of Russian arms and military hardware," Nikolayenko said. "In addition to Russia, organization of the program will involve several defense industry enterprises of Belarus, Armenia and other nations signatories to the treaty," he said.