President: Belarus is interested in more active cooperation with Russia in aircraft construction

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko proposed to cooperate more intensively in the field of aircraft construction at a meeting with the Governor of the Ulyanovsk region of Russia Alexei Russian in Minsk on September 29, the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti news agency reports.

Aircraft manufacturing is one of the areas in which the two countries actively cooperate at the level of industrial cooperation. It is in the Ulyanovsk region that the aircraft factory Aviastar is located - one of the largest in Russia. The proposal of the Head of State is to cooperate more intensively in this sphere, to attract Belarusian enterprises to perform works.

- You're getting us more involved in aircraft. There's a base, a school. Help with the technological equipment, we will be good assistants for you. We're not going to make a plane, you have to make it. But slowly connect to those areas where we can do something for you, the President said.

Belarus has been repairing aircraft since Soviet times, but it is time to switch to production.

- And we do a lot of things, we prepare for you knots, components. We are ready to modernize production and deepen, the Belarusian leader said.

He recalled the project of the Osway aircraft and confirmed the readiness of the Belarusian side together with the Russian side to engage in production.

Ah. The Russians noted a significant intensification of cooperation in the field of aircraft recently. In particular, between Aviastar and the Belarusian 558th Aviation Repair Plant, Minsk Civil Aviation Plant No. 407.

- From year to year we produce more and more aircraft and your enterprises, the 558th, 407th in this vein are very helpful.

He confirmed his interest in increasing this interaction. It became possible due to the great work done, which allowed to start the supply of components. According to him, now cooperation is only increasing.

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