Russia, Spain to hold first joint maneuvers in 2004
PLA Daily 2004-02-03
MOSCOW, Feb. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Russia and Spain plan to hold their first joint military exercise this year, Spanish Defense Minister Federico Trillo said in an interview published by Russian newspaper Izvestia on Monday.
The agreement to launch the drill was made during Trillo's talks last week with his Russian counterpart Sergei Ivanov, the paper said.
Trillo stressed that they also reached agreement on other measures that will scale up military cooperation including using Russian military transport planes for relocating Spanish forces and equipment during international operations, joint development of new weapons and communications, and visits by Russian and Spanish warships to each other's ports.
"Minister Ivanov and I also agreed to set up a joint commissionon cooperation between the armed forces. We have never had such anagreement with anybody else but the United States," Trillo said.
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