Azerbaijan, Ukraine agree to co-op in defense
BAKU – Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Yezhel signed a plan of bilateral cooperation in defense for 2011 with Azerbaijani counterpart Safar Abiyev on Wednesday, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said.
The same cooperation plan for 2011 was signed by the Ukrainian side with the Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, RBC-Ukraine reported.
The relevant documents were signed in the Crimea during the 59-th meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). A delegation of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, headed by Yezhel, participates as an observer there.
The sides discussed ways to expand and intensify bilateral defense cooperation, especially in the field of military education and science, the exchange of students and cadets of higher military educational institutions, the use of modern technologies in the educational process during bilateral meetings.
They also discussed the possibility of exchanging experience in peacekeeping operations between military of the armies of the CIS member-states.
Another topic of the conversation were the issues of repair, renovation and modernization of armament and military equipment of Soviet samples, which are adopted by the CIS countries.
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