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BAKU, 3 April (BelTA – Trend) – The 10,000th MTZ tractor has rolled off the assembly line at Ganja Automobile Plant (Azerbaijan), representatives of the plant said.

The line-off ceremony was attended by Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko, Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Yagub Eyyubov, Ambassador of Belarus to Azerbaijan Gennady Akhramovich, director general of Minsk Tractor Works (MTZ trademark) Fyodor Domotenko, director general of Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ) Dmitry Katerinich, Myor of Ganja Elmar Valiyev, and head of Ganja Automobile Plant Khanlar Fatiyev.

The guests went on a tour around the plant’s assembly lines, learned more about the vehicles manufactured by the company, and discussed future projects and prospects for the production of new vehicles with the Ganja Plant top management.

Vladimir Semashko praised the high level of Belarus-Azerbaijan relations and stressed that cooperation Ganja Automobile Plant, MTZ and MAZ expands every day. These companies, he said, are working on new projects to export vehicles to third countries.

“Ten thousand MTZ tractors and some three thousand MAZ tractors assembled in Ganja prove that this is the right format of cooperation. The bilateral memorandums of strategic cooperation signed in 2018 herald an era of closer cooperation,” Vladimir Semashko noted.

In turn, Khanlar Fatiyev pointed out that bilateral cooperation with the Belarusian colleagues will continue and will see new projects in the future.

Ganja Automobile Plant was set up in December 2004. Today the company assembles MTZ tractors and automobiles by MAZ, KamAZ, and Ural.