DUSHANBE, November 14, 2008 Asia-Plus — A two-day meeting of the sub-commission for military and technical cooperation within the Tajik-Russian intergovernmental commission for economic cooperation concluded in Dushanbe on November 13.
According to press service of the Ministry of Energy and Transport (MoET), the meeting resulted in signing of a protocol on further cooperation in the military-technical sphere.
Tajik delegation participating at the meting was led by Khairullo Mahmadulloyev, an official with a MoET, and the Russian delegation was led by Nikolai Biryulin, the deputy director of Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation.
The meeting considered a draft agreement on interaction in exporting military-purpose goods to the third countries as well as a draft agreement on joint use of productive facilities of the state unitary enterprise, Zarya Vostoka, for production of defense-purpose output.
The sides also considered issues related to improvement of legal foundation of military-technical cooperation, joint use of productive facilities of Zarya Vostoka for production, modernization, repair and utilization of products of military purpose, as well regulation of debts for training of military and technical personnel for Tajikistan at Russian military schools, as well as organization of maintenance and modernization of the Russian-made armored materiel and rocket-artillery armament with involvement of Tajik enterprises, the spokeswoman said.
Besides, the meeting participants discussed the progress of implementation of an agreement on work on ensuring safe processing of solid propellant, as well as the mechanism of implementation of an agreement on mutual protection of rights to the results of intellectual activity yielded in the course of bilateral military-technical cooperation, the press service said.
It was the fourth session of the
sub-commission for military and technical cooperation. The previous third session of the sub-commission was held in Moscow on January 15-17, 2008.

