РНБОУ National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Members of the NATO-Ukraine Joint Working Group on Defense Technical Cooperation discussed the results of the cooperation and plans for further work

As part of the deepening of Ukraine-NATO practical partnership in the defense-technical sphere, on May 23, 2018, the twenty-sixth regular meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Joint Working Group on Defense Technical Cooperation took place in Odesa.

First Deputy to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Chairman of the Interdepartmental Commission on the policy of military-technical cooperation and export control Oleg Hladkovskiy headed the delegation of Ukraine; the NATO delegation was led by Assistant Secretary General for Defense Investment Camille Grand.

The parties discussed the results of cooperation in the field of armaments during the period since the last meeting of the KWG, clarified the priorities within the framework of the Roadmap for NATO-Ukraine Defense-Technical Co-operation and the tasks for its implementation in the second half of 2018.

The prospects of defense-technical cooperation, reforming of the domestic defense-industrial complex and the further development of public-private partnership, the state of interaction in the implementation of NATO trust funds in terms of achieving compatibility with the Alliance in the defense-technical sphere, improving the training system for specialists in defense-technical cooperation for the security and defense sector structures as well as other issues were considered.