Serbian Prime Minister spoke about the negotiations with Putin
BELGRADE, Mar 28 — RIA Novosti. Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said that he discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s initiative on the establishment in Serbia of the centre on repair of helicopters of Soviet and Russian production, the recording of the speech of the head of the Serbian government published its press-service.
On Monday, Moscow called for the Serbian delegation, headed by the current Prime Minister and the candidate in presidents of Serbia and Minister of defence Zoran Djordjevic. The day was the meeting of Putin and Survived. The main topics reported were Economics and military-technical cooperation.
We were talking about something else, namely about the center on repair of helicopters in Serbia. This topic was opened by President Putin himself… a Part can be repaired with us, some in the Russian Federation. I previously discussed with (Deputy Prime Minister) Dmitry Rogozin, then we talked with JSC “Rosoboronexport” (the former head of the Federal service for military-technical cooperation Aleksandr) Fomin and drogemuller Musicplayer Serbia
“The Russian President himself mentioned this, and now it’s our job to look back and see what we can do on this issue. You know, whatever it was for (defense aircraft) “Momo Stanojlovic” and for our institutions and all our people! Question — can we currently take, and how much time you will need to invest in specialists, their knowledge, technical education and so on”, — said the head of the Cabinet.
In March, first Deputy head of the Ministry of industry and trade Gleb Nikitin at the end of his official visit to Belgrade said that he had discussed with the leadership of Serbia, the deployment mechanisms in Serbia service center for maintenance and overhaul of helicopters of Russian and Soviet production of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
In January 2015, the holding “Russian Helicopters” (part of “rostec”) reported willingness to provide after-sales servicing of Russian helicopters in Serbia and is considering the issue of retrofitting repair facilities of the Serbian aviation plant “MOMA Stanojlovic”. In July 2016 Deputy Director General of the holding company Grigory Kozlov, said that the company plans to upgrade “MOMA Stanojlovic” for future maintenance on the company of the Russian helicopters Mi-8 and Mi-17, serving in Eastern Europe.