(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Â Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called on the country's defence industry on Wednesday to provide the military with state-of-the-art weapons superior to their Western analogs.
"It is essential to offer weapons which are superior to our world counterparts, and pay special attention to strengthening cooperation, primarily with our partners in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)," Medvedev said. Medvedev made his appeal on the day Russia marks the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the country's system of military and technical cooperation with foreign states, a Ria Novosti news agency report said. Russia's arms industry has enjoyed considerable success in recent years, taking the country to the top of the world's weapons exporters, he said. Earlier Tuesday , Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said that Russia "has all chances" to avoid economic recession, and the Russian government is doing its best to prevent it.
In an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily published here, Medvedev said that the global economy was on the verge of recession at the moment, so Russia needed a set of measures to boost demand and overcome negative economic tendencies.
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