AFP, WARSAW
Poland is poised to finalise a 330-million-dollar (268-million-euro) arms contract with India, Defence Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski said on Monday.
“In the coming hours we will finalise a contract with India,” he told commercial station Radio Zet.
He said the deal would be signed during a visit by Deputy Defence Minister Janusz Zemke, who will be attending the DEF EXPO arms trade fair in New Delhi which opens on Wednesday.
It is part of a 500-million-dollar deal India signed up for in 2003 under which India will take delivery of armoured vehicles, assault tanks and weapons guidance systems for T-72 tanks, defence ministry spokesman Adam Stasinski told AFP.
Poland, which in 2003 exported 800 million dollars' worth of arms, will have its own pavilion at the trade fair “because India is the biggest purchaser of Polish arms and military equipment,” Zemke was quoted as saying before his departure by the PAP news agency.
