Baku, Azerbaijan, June 27
By Emin Aliyev - Trend:
High level qualification of the Azerbaijani specialists will lead to assembly of BelAZ trucks in Azerbaijan, Ambassador of Belarus to Azerbaijan Nikolai Paskevich said at a press conference in Baku.
At present, the assembly of Belarusian tractors, and other various technical equipment is carried out in Ganja automobile plant, where the localization level reaches 50 percent, he said.
"Minsk Tractor Plant, Minsk Automobile Plant, Wheel Tractor Plant and several other enterprises in Belarus are among the structures with which cooperation is being held. This range was expanded with one more enterprise BelAZ according to the concluded agreement with "Azerbaijan Steel Production Complex" CJSC," the ambassador said.
Only three countries produce heavy mining equipment in the world: the U.S., Japan and Belarus, he said.
"Belarus occupies 30 percent of the world market in this field. I am very pleased that one of the giants of Belarus, BelAZ, starts the systematic work with another giant in Azerbaijan, and we have no doubt that this company will prove itself, it has good, great future and we are glad that Belarus will participate in its development and formation, and ultimately in the economic development of Azerbaijan," Paskevich said.
The trade turnover between the two countries amounted $32.2 million in January- May, according to Azerbaijan`s State Customs Committee. Some 27.12 million of this amount accounted for the import of Belarusian production to Azerbaijan.
Edited by CN
