(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 23. The very promising
area of cooperation between Azerbaijan and Slovakia appears in
economic projects of rebuilding social-economic life in Karabakh,
Slovakian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Milan Lajčiak told Trend .
'Slovakia was the first foreign country that introduced on 27
May the last year in Baku the integrated project of building smart
city in Karabakh. The complexity of the Slovak project includes,
among others, elements of cooperation with Azerbaijan companies,
securing the financing of the project, green energy solution,
facilities providing long-term employment as well as high
flexibility of the project to be tailored upon Azerbaijan needs.
Many countries are interested in participation of Karabakh economic
revival. We believe our project has strong potential to be
successful,' he said.
The envoy noted that the years before COVID-19 pandemic
confirmed successful stories of business cooperation between our
countries.
'For illustration and better understanding the scope of our
economic potential, I will mention at least some of them. For
instance, prevailing majority of local Azerbaijan coins 'Manat'
were delivered by the Slovak company Kremnica Min,. Slovak
companies Doprastav and Betamont participated at Baku – Heydar
Aliyev International Airport highway construction, delivering
signaling devices, several Air Traffic Control Towers for heliports
on crude oil drilling platforms were provided by Slovak company
iBross, nearly 800 railway containers for Azerbaijan railways were
delivered by Vodohospodárske stavby, Azerbaijan locomotives were
repaired by ŽOS Zvolen + ŽOS Trnava and just recently ANAMA signed
contract with Slovak Way Industries on demining equipment for
Karabakh demining activities,' said Lajčiak.
He pointed out that all these successful stories represent good
references to build on further cooperation.
'We would like to utilize the above business channels and to tap
on their existing potential to continue with further contracts. In
addition to this, we will put our efforts to explore new economic
opportunities in the field of machinery, mostly automotive
components, in software application and management solutions for
some Azerbaijan companies and in promoting agriculture products. We
have a lot of to offer and will do much more efforts in matchmaking
activities in these spheres,' added the ambassador.
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