MILEX-2007: conclusions drawn

At the 4-th International exhibition of arms MILEX-2007 that took place on May, 22 - 25 in Minsk (Belarus) Russian defense industry was presented more than impressively. The history MILEX begins in 2001. It is organized by "BelExpo" of the Presidential Administration, State Military-Industrial Committee and the Ministry of Defense of Belarus. This year BelTechExport was the general sponsor of the exhibition.

	MILEX 2007 defense exhibition in Belarus
	BREAKING NEWS Russia signs billion-dollar deal with Saudi Arabia Mammoth earthquake hits China It was only the USSR that defeated Nazism
	Freak of nature: Giant jellyfish More...

The exhibition space has considerably increased: 1500 sq.m. under roof and 3000 sq.m. open. Official delegations from 43 countries were invited to MILEX-2007. During the exhibition the 3-rd International Scientific Conference on Military-Technical Problems took place. 129 enterprises took part in the exhibition, including from Russia, Ukraine, Sweden. Numerous foreign visitors came from the countries of Gulf, Northern Africa, Venezuela, China, UAE, Oman, Syria, Libya and other.

The first day of the exhibition coincided with the second day of the visit to Belarus of the Iranian leader Ahmadinejad. Contrary to media’s expectations he did not visit MILEX. Nevertheless, Russian central TV channel RTR could not help mentioning this coincidence. In the background of the picture taken for RTR, there was a unique wheeled tractor MZKT which is now delivered to the UAE and has nothing to do with the Iranian desert. On the rank and file level in Belarus people get bewildered when central Russian mass-media ambiguously interpret events in Minsk, whereas exactly same things occurring in other capitals or in Russia are interpreted absolutely calmly.

Noteworthy, such position does not coincide at all with the opinion of the top managers of the Russian defense enterprises. In the interviews which deputy general director on marketing of Uralwagonzavod S.P.Kolosok and deputy general director on strategic development of Military-Industrial Company A.I.Abramchuk's gave to the correspondent of PravdaRu there was nothing but positive references regarding the situation in Belarusian defense sector and the prospects of the Russian-Belarusian military-technical cooperation.

Pravda.ru forum. The place where truth hurts