The Secretary General of the Organization of collective security Treaty (CSTO) Nikolai Bordyuzha said that the issues of import substitution within the Organization can deal with the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.
according to him, in the position of the intergovernmental Council for military-economic cooperation was made a number of changes, and now its members are Deputy Prime Ministers in charge of defense industry, reports a news Agency." This will enable us to apply the maximum of the opportunities that exist for us to manufacture the military equipment, which was previously produced in Ukraine ", - said Bordyuzha. He explained that currently the subject being studied the possibility of using plants in Armenia, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan." The Commission's activities will be aimed at the implementation of the program of import substitution. I believe that the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Rogozin will to lead, " he added further. Above the head of the Ministry of defense Sergei Shoigu said that before the end of the year, the Russian military is supposed to replace almost 700 items of components for weapons and military equipment, which were produced in cooperation with Ukraine. Remember, in the summer of last year, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko forbade any military-technical cooperation with Russia. Then Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that the capital of Russia already has a plan for import substitution of military goods of Ukraine. As said Deputy defense Minister Yuri Borisov, the Russian defense Ministry hopes to 95% abandon dependence on deliveries of components from Ukraine. For his part, the Minister of industry and trade Denis Manturov said that Russian industry will be able to completely abandon dependence on deliveries of components and finished products from Ukraine for 3 years.


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