MOSCOW, August 3 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian and German defense ministries are interested in improving bilateral ties, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Saturday.
“Contacts between our ministries, between our countries have advanced in recent years,” he said during a meeting with his German counterpart Thomas de Maiziere ahead of the inauguration of a new cemetery for Wehrmacht soldiers killed in World War II, in the town of Dukhovshchina, near the city of Smolensk in western Russia.
Regular meetings between Russian and German defense officials point to “a mutual interest in deepening bilateral contacts,” Shoigu said.
“It is our common task to consolidate friendly relations between Russia and Germany,” he said.
