| TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Israel and the former Yugoslavia have agreed to
launch defense and military cooperation.
Israel and the Republic of Serbia and Montenegro have
signed a memorandum of cooperation that would pave the way for joint
training, intelligence exchange and weapons sales.
The memorandum was signed on Thursday during the visit
by Serbian Defense Minister Boris Tadic to Israel. It was the first visit
by a Yugoslav defense minister to the Jewish state.
"We have a lot of room for cooperation in our defense
industry," Tadic said. My idea is to bring Israeli technology to our
country, to have joint ventures and to find markets through our relations
[with third countries]."
Israel and Yugoslavia were said to have cooperated in
defense and military issues in the 1990s. But formal ties were avoided
amid the United Nations embargo on Belgrade in connection to the military
campaigns in Bosnia and later in Kosovo.
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ISRAEL, SERBIA SIGN
DEFENSE MoU
