Luanda – The Republics of Angola and Serbia Thursday agreed to boost relations of military cooperation in the areas of training of personnel and technological research.
The Secretary of State for Military Industry, Afonso Carlos Neto, noted at the opening of the 6th Meeting of the Joint Committee for Defence Cooperation Angola-Serbia, Angola’s interest in boosting the training programme for trainers.
“We should focus our concern on the training of trainers programme, and we insist on this point because of the need, in the short and medium term, to boost our military education institutions, which are growing fast,” he said.
In this domain, he emphasized the need for post graduation training for the different specialties that the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) determine.
The Secretary of State indicated that the pragmatism demanded requires the parties to elaborate and prepare a calendar plan during the sixth meeting of the Joint Committee, which should contain the feasible actions in the short term in the field of training of cadres.
He said it was necessary to consolidate the cooperation between the two states in the field of cadre training and in the re-equipment of the FAA with long-range radar systems for the protection of the maritime border.
In his turn, the Secretary of State, Co-Chairman of the Joint Committee, Aleksander Zivkovic, assured of his country’s willingness to support the training of trainers programme for the strengthening of military education institutions in Angola.
Source: Angola Press News Agency