DUSHANBE, April 28, 2016, Asia-Plus – Tajik deputy prime minister has received a delegation of Airbus.
Ambassador of France to Tajikistan Didier Leroy also attended the meeting.
A source in the Tajik government says the meeting focused on issues related to establishment of cooperation between Tajikistan and Airbus, purchase of airliners manufactured by this company, training of Tajik pilots, and consultative support for Tajik air carriers.
In the framework of the beginning of discussion of a draft agreement on avoidance of double taxation, Ambassador Leroy reportedly called on Tajik deputy prime minister to promote opening of markets for companies of the two countries for supplying goods and rendering services.
Airbus SAS is a division of the multinational Airbus Group SE that manufactures civil aircraft. It is based in Blagnac, France, a suburb of Toulouse, with production and manufacturing facilities mainly in France, Germany, Spain, China, United Kingdom and the United States. Airbus began as a consortium of aerospace manufacturers, Airbus Industrie. Consolidation of European defense and aerospace companies in 1999 and 2000 allowed the establishment of a simplified joint-stock company in 2001, owned by the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) (80%) and BAE Systems (20%). After a protracted sales process BAE sold its shareholding to EADS on October 13, 2006.
Airbus employs around 63,000 people at sixteen sites in four countries: France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. Final assembly production is based at Toulouse, France; Hamburg, Germany; Seville, Spain; and, since 2009 as a joint-venture, Tianjin, China. Airbus has subsidiaries in the United States, Japan and India. The company produces and markets the first commercially viable digital fly-by-wire airliner, the Airbus A320, and the world”s largest passenger airliner, the A380.
