Baghdad Takes Interest in Belarusian Machinery Supplies :: Charter'97 :: News

The delegation from Baghdad, headed by the city’s mayor Adan Abed Khamed, visited on Thursday the Minsk car-building plant MAZ. “Mediafact” was told by the director general of the Minsk company Valentin Gurinovich, that in course of their conversation with the delegation members, the latter took great interest in the shipment of Belarusian machinery to Iraq.

According to him, the Iraqi guests were astonished by the industrial capacity of MAZ plant. In particular, said the director of the company, “they never realized that we manufacture on the plant’s premises all different types of machines, including the fire-fighting ones”.

As noted by Gurinovich, the delegation members promised that upon their return to Baghdad “they will submit a request to the Ministry of trade of Iraq in order to purchase some types of the machinery, manufactured at MAZ facilities”.

He said that at the moment the company supplies no machinery to Iraq. Although there have been signed agreements and received UN commission’s prohibition to the shipment of over 700 machinery units, the contracts’ fulfillment was halted due to the situation development around Iraq, underscored Gurinovich.