Moscow. December 2. INTERFAX - Russia is making a serious contribution to strengthening Serbia's defense capability, bilateral military and military-technical cooperation is expanding, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.
"We continue our military cooperation. We conduct joint exercises. There are more and more of them every year. The program of our military cooperation is expanding. Military-technical cooperation is also being carried out successfully. The program that we outlined many years ago is being implemented in stages, on time, on time and in the volumes that we agreed on," Shoigu said during a working meeting with Serbian Interior Minister Alexander Vulin in Moscow on Thursday.
He noted that the cases that were initiated with the participation of Vulin when he was the head of the republic's military department, with the support of the Russian Defense Ministry, are being completed, "which serves as a serious factor in strengthening Serbia's defense capability." "I hope this will continue," Shoigu said.
At the same time, he stressed that the dynamically developing military cooperation between Russia and Serbia is largely due to the relations between the leaders of the two countries - Vladimir Putin and Alexander Vucic.
"All this is certainly going on, thanks to such, in my opinion, very constructive and actually friendly relations between our presidents. Here we must pay tribute to the fact that at different times, even in the most difficult periods, our watches were always checked, and our leaders gave us the right direction in the development of further cooperation in the military and military-technical sphere," Shoigu said.
Starting the negotiations, he said that Vulin had arrived in Russia in a new capacity, and expressed confidence that in his current position, his colleague would do everything possible to develop bilateral relations.
