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Russia, NATO countries to cooperate on standardizing weapons

MOSCOW, January 14 (Itar-Tass) - Rapprochement between Russia and NATO will be also conducted in the sphere of weapons' standards from now on. This prospect is opened by an agreement that was signed in Moscow on Monday on cooperation between the Russian State Committee on Standardisation and Metrology (Gosstandart) and the NATO cataloguing system, a source at Gosstandart told Tass on Tuesday. The agreement was signed by Boris Aleshin, the Gosstandart chairman, and Admiral Guillermo Leira, the head of a NATO delegation. The understanding will make it possible to increase the efficiency of Russian work to establish and maintain the Federal system of cataloguing goods for federal services, as well as to meet international standards on the operation of Russian-made military hardware. According to the source, who refused to be identified, the agreement does not provide for the transfer of information on Russian, catalogued weapons to the NATO cataloguing system. Information will be transferred only to specific customers, in compliance with contracts on deliveries of such Russian-made weapons. The agreement does not have status as an international treaty, but Gosstandart nevertheless appraised it as a basis for long-standing and mutually advantageous scientific and technical cooperation with NATO in the cataloguing of goods.

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