Defense chief on agreement with NATO
Dragan Šutanovac says Serbia will sign a security agreement with NATO soon.
Sunday, 03.08.2008.
10:22
Dragan Sutanovac says Serbia will sign a security agreement with NATO soon. The defense minister was speaking for state television RTS on Saturday when he specified that this agreement "has already been signed by all the countries in the world". Defense chief on agreement with NATO He added that the document will open up doors to educate Serbian soldiers abroad, and at the same time appraised that the state of the Serbian Army (VS) and in particular its Air Force, has improved in the last year. "The repair of 15 aircraft that we have done, almost twice as many flights, improved status of the members of the army, material and otherwise, are the results that we can be proud of in the space of a year," said Sutanovac, speaking in a ceremony to mark the Air Force Day in Batajnica, near Belgrade. He added this was "not enough", and explained that Serbia will seek to purchase modern aircraft, "in line with the country's economic capability". Sutanovac also stressed the military budget will be "insignificantly higher that before", but that it will be "better spread". A file photo of Dragan Sutanovac (FoNet)
Defense chief on agreement with NATO
He added that the document will open up doors to educate Serbian soldiers abroad, and at the same time appraised that the state of the Serbian Army (VS) and in particular its Air Force, has improved in the last year."The repair of 15 aircraft that we have done, almost twice as many flights, improved status of the members of the army, material and otherwise, are the results that we can be proud of in the space of a year," said Šutanovac, speaking in a ceremony to mark the Air Force Day in Batajnica, near Belgrade.
He added this was "not enough", and explained that Serbia will seek to purchase modern aircraft, "in line with the country's economic capability".
Šutanovac also stressed the military budget will be "insignificantly higher that before", but that it will be "better spread".
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