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Article: Finmeccanica, Kazakhstan sign MoU.
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- UPI Security Industry
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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Italian aerospace and defense company Finmeccanica has signed a memorandum of understanding with a Kazakhstan sovereign wealth fund for a raft of cooperation deals.
The agreements cover helicopters, railways and electro-optics, including tank upgrades.
Kairat Kelimbetov, the chairman of the Sovereign Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna, and Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, chairman and CEO of Finmeccanica, signed the Memorandum of Understanding in Rome in the presence of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
The agreement includes the possibility of setting up technological centers of excellence.
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