20 countries interested<\/a>\u00a0and four signed agreements on drones, including Germany, Canada, Norway and Japan.<\/p>\nUkraine’s ambassador to New Zealand and Australia Vasyl Myroshnychenko said his country could offer unique drone innovation and he had raised it several times with the government.<\/p>\n
“They have the proposal on the table,” Myroshnychenko said on Friday.<\/p>\n
The government said no decision had been made to an approach on drones in December, but officials were considering it.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian President Zelensky has recently made statements that have been seen as a key step in defence diplomacy by Kyiv, leveraging the fact that the world had witnessed uncrewed systems rewriting the rules of warfare in both the Russia and Iran conflicts.<\/p>\n
Many countries around the world have ramped up demand for drones this year – including both Australia and the US, which last months revealed a new $NZ90 billion plan to build a Defense Autonomous Warfare Group (DAWG).<\/p>\n
Myroshnychenko said he did not need to raise the issue again in New Zealand.<\/p>\n
“It’s up to New Zealand government” to consider either before or after the November elections, he told RNZ.<\/p>\n
“That’s what we are now doing with a number of international partners and certainly would be open to discuss it with the New Zealand government.<\/p>\n
“Certainly we would be open for it and we do believe that we could assist and we have some of the innovation which is only available in Ukraine, and we would be happy to work jointly on this investment together.”<\/p>\n
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