Finnish-Slovak Symposium
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The SVK MOD is interested to see the Slovak defence and security equipment gaining ground also in international markets. This was confirmed by Miloš Koterec, the State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic, during the Finnish-Slovak Defence and Security Industry Symposium, which he opened in Finland on 18 March.
“Over the past three years, we have considerably increased the share of defence spending on modernization. However, it is virtually impossible for the domestic manufacturers to meet all the modernization requirements of our Armed Forces. Therefore, we’ve been taking maximum efforts to facilitate their cooperation with foreign partners so as to achieve, among other things, greater engagement of Slovak manufacturers, while concurrently boosting employment levels in the defence industry,” said State Secretary Koterec.
He went on to say that the SVK MOD considers the Association of the Security and Defence Industry of the Slovak Republic an important partner, with this bond having been anchored in a mutual written agreement on cooperation. It was precisely due to this reason that the seminar in Finland, attended by representatives of respective defence industries and MODs, was geared towards pinpointing common overlaps in modernization plans and forging cooperation in those areas.
During his working visit to Finland, Koterec met with Arto Räty and Marcus Rantala, the Permanent Secretary and State Secretary, respectively, of the Finnish Ministry of Defence. On this occasion, Miloš Koterec suggested holding a joint training exercise, one that would involve the Visegrad 4 Special Forces and the Finnish and Swedish Special Forces. The exercise could be conducted at the Lešť Training Area. He also notified his Finnish counterparts of the training capabilities that the Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Defence Training Centre Zemianske Kostoľany offers to CBRN specialists, where yet another training exercise could be held in the future.
“Over the past three years, we have considerably increased the share of defence spending on modernization. However, it is virtually impossible for the domestic manufacturers to meet all the modernization requirements of our Armed Forces. Therefore, we’ve been taking maximum efforts to facilitate their cooperation with foreign partners so as to achieve, among other things, greater engagement of Slovak manufacturers, while concurrently boosting employment levels in the defence industry,” said State Secretary Koterec.
He went on to say that the SVK MOD considers the Association of the Security and Defence Industry of the Slovak Republic an important partner, with this bond having been anchored in a mutual written agreement on cooperation. It was precisely due to this reason that the seminar in Finland, attended by representatives of respective defence industries and MODs, was geared towards pinpointing common overlaps in modernization plans and forging cooperation in those areas.
During his working visit to Finland, Koterec met with Arto Räty and Marcus Rantala, the Permanent Secretary and State Secretary, respectively, of the Finnish Ministry of Defence. On this occasion, Miloš Koterec suggested holding a joint training exercise, one that would involve the Visegrad 4 Special Forces and the Finnish and Swedish Special Forces. The exercise could be conducted at the Lešť Training Area. He also notified his Finnish counterparts of the training capabilities that the Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Defence Training Centre Zemianske Kostoľany offers to CBRN specialists, where yet another training exercise could be held in the future.
