Putin outlines key areas of military-technical cooperation.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

[President Vladimir Putin, opening the meeting of the commission on military-technological cooperation in the Kremlin today] The strengthening of the economic and political positions of our country in the world directly depends upon the efficiency of work in the sphere of military-technical cooperation.

Furthermore, money obtained as a result of military-technical cooperation is a good resource for modernizing Russia's defence-industry sector, as we said many times. This year we managed to positively resolve a number of tasks aimed at supporting the export of military output.

One of the key areas is …