PULA, March 27 (Hina) - Istria County Prefect Ivan Jakovcic told a news conference in Pula Thursday that the implementation of a project of building a plant for the transformation of passenger aircraft into transport aircraft with an
Israeli partner was of strategic interest for Istria County.
PULA, March 27 (Hina) - Istria County Prefect Ivan Jakovcic told a
news conference in Pula Thursday that the implementation of a
project of building a plant for the transformation of passenger
aircraft into transport aircraft with an Israeli partner was of
strategic interest for Istria County. #L#
The project is important not only for reducing unemployment, but
also for "conquering high technology and connecting existing
Istrian companies with renowned ones," he said.
Commenting on yesterday's statement by the president of the Pula
branch of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Livio Bolkovic, that
it was dangerous to bring the Israeli military industry to Pula and
that the Israeli investment was in fact aimed at building weapons
factories and military aircraft, Jakovcic said that those were
false claims and were misleading the public.
"This is an exclusively civilian project of constructing a plant
for the transformation of passenger aircraft into cargo
aeroplanes, which envisages the creation of several hundreds of new
jobs and investments of some EUR30 million," said Jakovcic.
He added that the project was endorsed by President Stjepan Mesic
and Vice-Premier Slavko Linic.
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