Raspberries, tennis, and weapons
Weapons could soon become the third most recognized Serbian export - right behind "tennis and raspberries", writes a London magazine.
Monday, 10.01.2011.
10:32
Weapons could soon become the third most recognized Serbian export - right behind "tennis and raspberries", writes a London magazine. The Economist article mentions that the former Yugoslavia was a "big arms exporter", particularly to third world countries. Raspberries, tennis, and weapons The ties between former Yugoslav republics are being restored in the military industry area, says the article, with Serbian, Bosnian and Macedonian arms companies now working together. As for the perceived revival of Serbia as an arms exporter, north Africa is described as the main target, while Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac is quoted as saying that a contract will soon be signed to build a military hospital in an Arab country, as well as to modernize M-84 tanks exported to Kuwait in 1991. That contract would be worth 400mn, and would see cooperation from ex-Yugoslav republics where the tanks were originally made, according to this. Sutanovac said that "NATO has given the Serbian arms industry the go-ahead to export to its armies". He is further quoted as saying that "defense sales are the country’s fastest-growing industry after agriculture".
Raspberries, tennis, and weapons
The ties between former Yugoslav republics are being restored in the military industry area, says the article, with Serbian, Bosnian and Macedonian arms companies now working together.As for the perceived revival of Serbia as an arms exporter, north Africa is described as the main target, while Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac is quoted as saying that a contract will soon be signed to build a military hospital in an Arab country, as well as to modernize M-84 tanks exported to Kuwait in 1991.
That contract would be worth 400mn, and would see cooperation from ex-Yugoslav republics where the tanks were originally made, according to this.
Šutanovac said that "NATO has given the Serbian arms industry the go-ahead to export to its armies".
He is further quoted as saying that "defense sales are the country’s fastest-growing industry after agriculture".
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