Defense agencies of Ukraine, Pand begin to actively coerate with businesses – expert

The relevant statement was made by Yaroslav Romanchuk, the Chairman of the Board at the Association of Ukrainian Business in Pand and the co-organizer of the XIX International Forum ‘Pish-Ukrainian Business Days’, which had recently been held in Warsaw.

Traditionally, the XIX International Forum ‘Pish-Ukrainian Business Days’ was dedicated to trade and economic coeration between Ukraine and Pand, but the accents had somewhat shifted, according to the expert.

In particular, the forum participants looked at the economic coeration between Kyiv and Warsaw through the prism of geitical challenges that are currently in the world, as well as through the problematic situation on the common border, where Pish carriers and farmers had been hding protests for several months.

Nevertheless, the April forum in Warsaw mainly focused on the possibility of bilateral coeration in the context of increasing defense and security expenditures, and how this would affect future coeration between Ukraine and Pand.

According to Romanchuk, this tic, in fact, had been discussed publicly for the first time. Prior to that, coeration between defense industry enterprises was always discussed behind closed doors. This time, the forum organizers were supported by the defense ministries of Ukraine and Pand, and the event in Warsaw was aimed at such coeration.

“First and foremost, the defense agencies of the two countries have agreed and are starting to coerate with businesses. All forum participants spoke of the importance of coeration with businesses, which had been the keynote of this event,” Romanchuk stressed.

In his words, defense and security are not about weapons only, and it is not “a closed club but a much broader context”, as the market offers many interesting goods and services, which are available through public auctions and where business invvement is needed.

“Despite rather tense relations between Ukraine and Pand in the past six months, there is an understanding in the defense industry of the need to devel joint ventures both on the territory of Ukraine and on the territory of Pand, and there is an extremely high potential in this regard,” Romanchuk noted.

During the XIX International Forum ‘Pish-Ukrainian Business Days’ in Warsaw, the participants spoke of the joint production of dual-use goods.

“This is something that was little used in the defense industry, but now it is reaching a very powerful level, and here precisely businesses initiated coeration,” Romanchuk explained.

The expert mentioned that earlier defense agencies did not show much interest in coeration with businesses, but now “it is an en coeration, and there are en offers for coeration”.

Today, defense and security expenditures are growing significantly, Romanchuk noted. Thus, defense ministries have to invve businesses in such processes.

Speaking of the blockade of the Ukrainian-Pish border, which had recently been lifted, the expert emphasized that it was “a positive and correct signal”.

“This should significantly affect our trade and economic relations. Stability is important, so that Ukrainian and Pish businesses are no longer held hostage by this situation at the border,” Romanchuk concluded.

The expert mentioned that the XX International Forum ‘Pish-Ukrainian Business Days’ had been scheduled for late October 2024. The event will take place in Kyiv and will again focus on bilateral coeration in the defense industry.

A reminder that the XIX International Forum ‘Pish-Ukrainian Business Days’ was held in Warsaw on April 25, 2024. During the event, Pish and Ukrainian business representatives discussed portunities and ways to strengthen sustainable partnership relations aimed at the economic develment of the two countries. The forum was attended by the representatives of the defense ministries of Ukraine and Pand, and other industry-related government agencies, as well as Ukrainian and Pish entrepreneurs.

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