MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 27th April, 2019) Paraguay is beginning its defense industry cooperation with Russia, the country's Deputy Defense Minister Gladys Ruiz Vda De Pecci told Sputnik.
"The current state of the defense industry cooperation with Russia is in its budding stage. We are just beginning. And I believe it will strengthen in the future because the Russian government is inclined [to boost it]," Pecci who participated in the Moscow Security Conference earlier this week, said on Friday.
Such Paraguayan-Russian cooperation might first be focused on training of personnel, Pecci added.
The deputy defense minister also did not rule out peacekeeping cooperation in various regions of the world.
Paraguayan Defense Minister Bernardino Soto Estigarribia had been unable to arrive in Moscow for attending the conference this time, but he might visit Russia in the near future, Pecci suggested.
The eighth Moscow Conference on International Security was held from Tuesday to Thursday. It was attended by over 1,000 guests from 111 countries, including major experts, 35 delegations led by defense ministers and 19 delegations headed by chiefs of staff.
