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FANIPOL, 20 November (BelTA) – A state-of-the-art manufacturing facility must be created on the basis of Belkommunmash. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko gave the relevant instructions during the ceremony held on 20 November to open the Stadler Minsk factory in Dzerzhinsk District, BelTA has learned.

The head of state underlined the importance of opening the enterprise that makes modern electric trains in Belarus. He remarked he was the one behind the idea to create this high-tech enterprise. Alexander Lukashenko pointed out that the new factory represents direct investments poured by the foreign company that had arrived in Belarus with its own market outlets and was ready to seek new markets.

The President reminded that he had promised to Peter Spuhler, head of the Swiss company Stadler Rail Group, that proper attention would be paid to the development of the enterprise in Belarus. “As you can see the country’s leadership and the president have honored their word. Now I expect the management of the Swiss company and of the factory that has been created in Belarus will keep their own word and will fulfill their promises,” said Alexander Lukashenko. The head of state specified that plans had been made to rapidly develop the old premises of Belkommunmash after the factory to make modern electric trains was built. Belkommunmash is supposed to become as technologically sophisticated as the Stadler Minsk factory.

Alexander Lukashenko said that unfortunately he was getting reports that say otherwise. The President said that the Belarus government, the management of the Stadler Minsk factory, the administration of Minsk and the oblast must take all the necessary measures by 2015 to create a modern high-tech enterprise on the basis of Belkommunmash. The President instructed the State Control Committee to monitor the fulfillment of the instruction while the Belarus President Administration is supposed to exercise efforts to make it happen.