Prospects for military-technical cooperation discussed at a meeting with the Minister of Defenсe of Slovakia

BRATISLAVA, September 8, 2020 – Prospects for military to military and military-technical cooperation between Kazakhstan and Slovakia were discussed at a meeting of Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Slovak Republic Roman Vasilenko with Minister of Defence of Slovakia Jaroslav Nad’.

Congratulating the minister on his appointment to this post and wishing him success in his work, the Ambassador noted the dynamic nature of the development of broad relations with Slovakia in bilateral and multilateral formats, including in the context of cooperation between Kazakhstan and the European Union.

The parties noted the participation of Kazakhstan and Slovakia in the UN peacekeeping activities as an important component of the policy to strengthen international and regional security.

Ambassador Vassilenko spoke about Kazakhstan’s cooperation with NATO within the framework of the Partnership for Peace programme aimed at further developing and maintaining the peacekeeping potential of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan to participate in peacekeeping operations under the UN auspices. The result of this long-term work is the expansion of the geography of service by Kazakh peacekeepers and an increase in the number of Kazakh peacekeepers, which raised Kazakhstan’s standing from the 112th to the 66th place among the countries providing peacekeeping contingents. In this regard, the interlocutors considered the possibility of exchanging experience and training specialists in this area.

Noting the existence of a significant potential for mutually beneficial military-technical cooperation, for which there is both an appropriate legal framework and mutual interest, Minister Nad’ and Ambassador Vassilenko stressed the importance of the participation of Slovak defence companies in the KADEX international defence exhibition in Nur-Sultan on June 10-13, 2021, and of Kazakh defence enterprises at the IDEB 2020 International Defense Exhibition in Bratislava October 28-30 this year.

During the meeting, that took place in a warm atmosphere, the interlocutors also reviewed the schedule of high-level contacts and agreed to continue mutually interesting interaction.