Poland and Slovakia to sign agreement on ammunition production in 2025
PHOTO CAPTION: Illustrative photo — A Slovakian soldier is seen during a training exercise at Libavá Military Training Area, Czech Republic, Oct. 6, 2024. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Nolan Brewer via U.S. Defense Visual Information Distribution Service)
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland and Slovakia will sign an agreement on cooperation in ammunition production next year, Polish Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Friday after meeting his Slovak counterpart Robert Kalinak.
Poland said this month it plans to invest 3 billion zlotys to boost ammunition production, aiming to ensure it has sufficient supplies in the event of an attack from Russia.
The government also signed a letter of intent with domestic companies to make the nitrocellulose and multi-base powders necessary for producing ammunition.
"We have agreed with (Deputy) Prime Minister Kalinak that we will sign an agreement in this regard in the first half of 2025", Kosiniak-Kamysz told reporters.
"(Slovakia's) production capacities (...) are much higher than in Western Europe, than in any other country in this part of Europe, in my opinion, and Poland can participate in this and be a co-leader in ammunition production, if it benefits from this experience."
(Reporting by Pawel Florkiewicz and Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk; Editing by Frances Kerry)
