President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine has said that the Ukrainian defense industry complex should be reformed in line with requirements of contemporaneity, the president's press service has reported.
"All our scientific potential should be involved. We should force the system serving the society," Yanukovych said in Crimea at a meeting with the chairman of the state commission at the Ukrainian president for reformation and development of the defense industry complex, Anatoliy Kinakh, on Saturday.
The main topic of the meeting was the reformation of the defense industry complex and the summing up of the results of work done in this direction.
In response, Kinakh said that Ukraine still has a powerful scientific, technical, industrial and staff potential and Ukraine is considered in the world as a state producing high-tech and competitive products.
"We don’t have time for delays. Work has been dynamically organized. There is a political will of the president, there is intellect and specialists," he said.
Kinakh said that currently the important task is to draw up up-to-date legal base, which would strengthen Ukraine’s positions on the international special machinery and weapon markets and would promote clear coordination of actions of all power institutes.
He added that the results of work of the state commission at the Ukrainian president for reformation and development of the defense industry complex would be discussed at a next meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. Kinakh said that the defense industry complex reformation is linked to the reformation of all directions, starting from national security, defensive potential and a military doctrine, and ending state target programs aimed at production of modern special machinery, weapons needed for Ukrainian Armed Forces and strengthening of state positions on foreign markets.
