MOSCOW, October 10 (RIA Novosti) - A high-ranking U.K. defense official will visit a number of facilities implementing joint projects in Russia, the British embassy said Monday.
Adam Ingram, the British Minister of State for the Armed Forces, will visit during his October 11-14 tour of a center in Yekaterinburg in the Urals where the U.K. Ministry of Defense participates in retraining commissioned officers.
The embassy said the visit would boost relations in the sphere of security and defense, including the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction.
The minister will also visit Snezhinsk, a closed nuclear town where the U.K. contributes to nuclear scientists' civil employment, and Shchuchye, where the U.K., Russia, the United States and Canada destroy Russian stockpiles of chemical weapons.
