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Azerbaijani companies to invest in Ukraine’s Odessa region

Azerbaijani companies to invest in Ukraine’s Odessa region

Baku, April 8, AZERTAC

Azerbaijani companies are ready to invest in the Odessa region of Ukraine, Azerbaijani ambassador Azer Khudiyev said at a meeting with chairman of the Odessa regional state administration Maxim Stepanov.

The ambassador said that Azerbaijan is interested in developing economic ties with Ukraine, especially in the sphere of sugar production and road reconstruction. "We are planning to produce sugar and work in the field of infrastructure development, as well as construction and reconstruction of roads. We have already submitted several projects for a tender. We are ready to invest in the Odessa region, and will further discuss the issue," said Khudiyev.

Maxim Stepanov stressed that Azerbaijan is a strategic partner of Ukraine. Stepanov said that he personally is ready to contribute in every way to the development of Azerbaijani investment projects. "I am sure that intensification of cooperation between our countries in the agricultural sphere will be useful for Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Expansion of cooperation in the food and processing industry is really a promising vector of business development in the Odessa region. I support your initiatives and I am ready to take the Azerbaijani investment projects under my personal control ," he said.

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