"We discussed the issue and agreed to instruct those people who can address it in a professional way to work on it," Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov told journalists following intergovernmental talks in the Uzbek capital. "It is an urgent and sensitive issue."
UABC, which is 90% state owned, consolidates aircraft building companies and state assets engaged in the manufacture, design and sale of military, non-military, transport and unmanned aircraft in a bid to streamline the Russian aviation industry.
It incorporates commercial and military aircraft makers, such as Sukhoi, Ilyushin and Tupolev, as well as companies involved in distribution, including Aviaexport.
The Tashkent aircraft builder produces Il-76 Candid military transport planes.