14:52 21.08.2015

Ukroboronprom wants to invite western top manager to accelerate switch to NATO standards

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Ukroboronprom wants to invite western top manager to accelerate switch to NATO standards

Ukroboronprom state concern plans to introduce a western top manager to the concern's senior management to ensure an easy and accelerated switch of the Ukrainian defense and industrial complex to NATO standards, Ukroboronprom Head Roman Romanov has said.

The press service of the concern reported on Friday that at a working meeting, Romanov said that the defense and industrial complex faces tasks under the conditions new challenges and is looking for investors to modernize its production facilities.

"Today, our enterprises reached a new level of production. This raises radically new opportunities and radically new challenges. Therefore, strengthening the management team is the [first] step, [which is] adequate to time requirements. Moreover, we have intensified foreign investors search for modernization of our enterprises, and we are to speak the same language," he said.

"Today the concern has chosen the path of development: European markets and cooperation with NATO and is going to strictly follow this strategy. That is why we need an effective manager with successful experience of working for Western companies," Romanov said.

The new manager is to implement the best European management practices in the concern's administration, facilitate the transition to production of armaments and military equipment in accordance with NATO standards, and expand industrial cooperation with Western partners, he said.

Ukroboronprom state concern was established in accordance with presidential decrees dated December 9 and 28, 2010, as well as under government decree No. 1221 of December 29, 2010. Ukroboronprom, jointly with the government, manages state defense industry facilities.

At present, 137 Ukrainian defense industry enterprises, including state-run Ukrspecexport and its subsidiaries, are members of the state concern. Today, 23 enterprises of the concern are located in the occupied territory of Crimea and in Donbas.

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