OREANDA-NEWS. August 15, 2011. During a visit to Bashkortostan, Director General of OJSC KAMAZ Sergey Kogogin met with President of Bashkortostan Rustem Khamitov.

During the talks, they discussed the issues on expansion of cooperation between Bashkortostan and KAMAZ.

Rustem Khamitov emphasized significance of cooperation between the region and KAMAZ. To his mind, the company should expand its presence in the republic. "I would like to attract KAMAZ to open new businesses and generate new opportunities in the sphere of agricultural equipment assembly," said the president of Bashkortostan.

In his turn, Sergey Kogogin expressed readiness to develop cooperation and noted that Bashkortostan is the second important region after the Republic of Tatarstan for KAMAZ. There is JSC  NEFAZ – a subsidiary of the auto giant producing a wide range of buses – in Neftekamsk. According to Director General of KAMAZ, NEFAZ managed not only to maintain its position, but also to strengthen it during the economic downturn. "We have recently recovered to pre-crisis levels, and they are higher than those of 2007-2008. It is very important that Neftekamsk launched production of platforms for Mercedes. It means that our cooperation is successful, and the first contracts are executed," stressed Sergey Kogogin during the talks.