(EFE).- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the creation of a defense industrial alliance and a special defense fund during the first International Defense Industrial Forum on Friday in Kiev, according to his speech published today on the Ukrainian presidency website.
“Today in this forum we announce the creation of the Defense Industries Alliance, an alliance that values international law and is able to advocate for the genuine protection of international law. I’m not just talking about Ukraine, but also about the “security of every nation in the world that faces aggression,” he said.
He added that as a basis for the alliance, a Declaration of Principles has been drawn up, to which manufacturers of weapons and military equipment from around the world who share the intention to “provide real protection against aggression” in these risky conditions of our time can join. Time”.
He noted that the statement has already been signed by 13 prominent companies that are ready to “build a new arsenal of the free world together with Ukraine.”
Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry said that 38 companies from 19 countries have already joined the Defense Industries Alliance and that during the forum Ukrainian companies signed twenty agreements and memoranda with foreign partners on the production, repair and production of drones of armored vehicles and ammunition.
The State Department said 38 companies from 19 countries have already joined the Defense Industries Alliance
“The cooperation formats include joint production, technology exchange and component delivery,” the statement continued.
During the forum, Zelensi also pointed out that Ukraine is developing a special economic system for the defense industry in order to give “every company that works in Ukraine and with Ukraine for defense or wants to come to Ukraine every opportunity to develop its “To achieve goals.” Potential.
He also referred to the intention to create a special defense fund to provide additional resources, in particular for the development of military production and support of relevant cooperation, for the creation of new military facilities and programs necessary for the defense and supply of Ukraine are soldiers.
The fund’s resources are a plus for public spending on defense, defense production and private investments, he added, specifying that the fund will be replenished with dividends from state defense assets and profits from the sale of Russian assets. confiscated.
According to Zelensky, the forum was attended by 252 defense companies producing a full range of weapons and defense systems and solutions from more than thirty countries around the world.
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