TSAMTO, December 21. The Ministry of Defense cooperates with the armed forces of 109 countries of the world, the head of the military department, Army General Sergei Shoigu, said at an expanded meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Below is a fragment of S. Shoigu's speech on this issue given in the presentation of the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
"This clearly demonstrates the futility of Western countries' attempts to isolate Russia in the international arena.
We continued to strengthen allied relations with the CSTO, CIS and SCO countries. This year, we conducted the third joint air patrol with the PLA and the first sea patrol. We will continue this work.
China, India, Algeria, Egypt, Vietnam and Myanmar remain the main partners in the field of military-technical cooperation.
In June, the IX Moscow Conference on International Security was held, which was attended by delegates from 109 countries. This is the largest military-political event in the world in terms of participants.
The annual Army Forum contributed to the strengthening of international military-technical cooperation. It was attended by delegations from 117 foreign countries, and the number of visitors exceeded 1.7 million people."
