BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

07/06/2006

Iran to Manufacture Samand in Belarus from July

ISNA - Tehran

Service: Machine

TEHRAN, June 07 (ISNA)-Iran is to inaugurate its car production line in Belarus from July so to cover parts of Europe and the CIS markets.

Through an agreement signed between Iran Khodro Co. and Belarus, Iran's car factory is to manufacture one thousand Samand in the first year, but plans to increase this figure up to 6 thousand cars during the next three years and is to finally reach 60 thousand in the second phase.

Iran Khodro Vice President regarding this matter explained that the Azerbaijan and Belarus production lines had been established so to cover the CIS countries.

"The Azerbaijan branch is to supply Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, in addition to Georgia and Ukraine's markets and the Belarus production line will cover Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Eastern Europe's markets," he said.

Source:

http://www.isna.ir/Main/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-731041&Lang=E

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