In the past five years, the USA has donated more than $5 million to Montenegro.
State Department Official that so far, Montenegro has obtained million amounts through the donation programs, as well as assistance to the modernization of the Armed Forces and training of staff.
As far as concretely the donation regarding armored vehicles is concerned, interlocutor of “Pobjeda” said that the vehicles that weren’t used were donated to the countries that needed them.
“US donations were mostly aimed at the improvement of NATO interoperability, providing deployment of the Armed Forces of Montenegro as way of giving support to the operations in the USA as well as for the modernization of the armed forces”, said the State Department official.
He adds that the USA have helped Montenegro with tactic radio devices, submarine information management system, night sight devices, equipment for the identification of chemical, biological, radioactive and nuclear materials as well as equipment for the elimination of explosive devices.
In addition, Montenegro has been provided with almost half a million assistance through the military education.
“In the past couple of years, the USA, have provided for Montenegro $500.000 for financing international military education and training”, reported State Department.
