International Aviation Industry Union 

CEP20020820000148 Moscow ITAR-TASS in English 1109 GMT 20 Aug 02 

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 By Yevgeny Nikitin

    MOSCOW, August 20 (Itar-Tass) -- The newly founded International Aviation Industry Union will lobby for the interests of this crucial
branch of the economy in both government and non-government organizations, the president of the Interstate Aviation Committee,
Tatyana Anodina told a news conference on Tuesday.
    Mrs. Anodina has been elected at IAIU president.
     The union is the first industrial organization called to defend the corporate interests of aircraft producers at all levels of legislative and executive power of Russia and the CIS. Similar work will be conducted with the International Civil Aviation Organization, the World Trade Organization and other agencies.
  The news conference was told the IAIU will soon "formulate a unified concept of forming the government defense contract concerning the aircraft-building industry and foreign economic cooperation."
  The IAIU plans to cooperate with the Russian presidential administration, government, Federal Assembly and Security Council.
  The IAIU constituent conference was held last month. It has been included in the state register of legal entities as a non-government non-commercial partnership, founded by the national space agency Rosaviakosmos, Interstate Aviation Committee, aircraft building firms Kamov, Sukhoi and Ilyushin, leading research and development centers in such fields as aviation materials and engine building.
  Russia's aircraft industry provides 35 percent of the national defense complex output. Last year the Russian aircraft industry accounted for half of revenues from military-technological cooperation. Production was up 40.2 percent, and the industry's overall profit exceeded 17 billion rubles.
 

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