April 24,
2015 (UNIAN News Agency). Leading French companies are
to supply helicopters and radio systems to the Ukrainian armed forces, the
press service of the Ukroboronprom state concern reported on Wednesday. Thales
Communication & Security S.A.S will deliver tactical radio communications
systems, while Airbus Helicopters S.A.S will sell its H125 single-engine
helicopters to Ukraine. In addition, experts from Ukraine’s Ukrinmash state
enterprise have signed a memorandum on cooperation with Thales Systems
Aeroportes S.A. on a joint project to create a modern patrol aircraft. The
strategic agreements in the sphere of military-technical cooperation between
Ukraine and France came during a working visit of Ukrainian President Petro
Poroshenko to France. As UNIAN reported earlier, French President François
Hollande and Poroshenko held a meeting in Paris on April 22.
During the meeting, the two leaders discussed the
implementation of the Minsk agreements and the possibility of the deployment of
an international peacekeeping mission in the Donbas conflict zone in eastern
Ukraine. Hollande said during the meeting that he wasn’t sure about the need
for the deployment of a peacekeeping mission in the Donbas. He also said that
France would this month ratify the Association Agreement between Ukraine and
the EU.
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