ПWhen visiting Minsk Automobile Plant in April 2016 Belarusian Preisdent Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “MAZ, BelAZ, and Motovelo are the calling cards of Belarus. We have no right to let these companies go out of business."
A ceremony to hand over a batch of 25 new generation MAZ-303T22 trolleybuses to the city took place near Kazan City Hall on 9 November. The event was attended by Head of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Dmitry Krutoi and Kazan Mayor Ilsur Metshin.
Russia's Stavropol Territory is interested in building a factory to assemble Belarusian tractors. The assembly factory was discussed at a meeting between Ambassador of Belarus to Russia Dmitry Krutoi and Stavropol Territory Governor Vladimir Vladimirov on 20 October.
Speaking about his recent meeting with the Belarusian head of state, Artyom Zdunov explained: “We have substantially reconsidered our relations in the trade and economic sector and taken a look at the reserves we have. We have been communicating closer with Belarus at the level of directors, chief designers and engineers of our enterprises. We have a lot of joint projects.”
"All our discussions show a high interest in cooperation. The most important task at this stage is to maintain the positive trend that has developed in our trade and economic cooperation. Last year the trade exceeded $0.5 billion. It was almost 20% growth over 2021. The results achieved in January-August 2023 show that there is every reason to expect a steady growth even over the successful year 2022,” Roman Golovchenko said.