Minsk hosted the 7th International defence technology exhibition MILEX-2014, one of the largest exhibitions of this type in the Eastern-European region. According to the Prime Minister, Mikhail Myasnikovich, who took part in its opening, it will further promote the development of military-technical co-operation based on close co-operation in international industrial interaction.
The Prime Minister expressed his hope that the business programme of exhibition would become useful and substantial, and that the numerous meetings and section sessions, round tables and conferences would help participants and visitors to develop interesting ideas on the realisation of joint projects in the production of armament, its service and modernisation. Mikhail Myasnikovich considers that Belarus and Russia need to create a joint venture in a military-industrial complex. After all, such joint companies will not require any more any permissions at the high or co-ordinating levels and would mean that there would not be any ‘postponement’ in the officials’ offices.
There were many negotiations at the MILEX-2014 exhibition
“We are closely considering a couple of enterprises, starting with intellectual systems, radar and optical-mechanical things and finishing with questions concerning, for example, helicopters, armour etc. We still have much work here. Today it turns out, that not all our enterprises can work in co-operation with the manufacture of corresponding products of military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation, but we have some progress here,” Mikhail Myasnikovich specified. He reminded that recently he had discussed this theme with the Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Dmitry Rogozin.
The MILEХ exhibition was held in Minsk for the seventh time. The present exposition was divided into four basic areas: combat geo information systems, including multipurpose unmanned aerial systems, fire systems, combat systems for special operations forces and ground forces, and systems to counter precision-guided munitions. Armament, military equipment and other products could be seen both in the open-air areas and indoors. The exhibition became a considerable contributor to the creation of a system of collective security, according to CSTO Secretary General, Nikolay Bordyuzha.
