ULYANOVSK, February 10 (RIA Novosti, Lyubov Chilikova) - A delegation from Cuba visited a Russian airplane manufacturing plant Friday in Ulyanovsk, about 550 miles east of Moscow, and expressed interest in purchasing three Russian passenger airliners.
Cuban Ambassador to Russia Jorge Marti Martinez, who headed the delegation, expressed his colleagues' conclusion: "It [the plane] is unique, reliable and competitive in price."
The delegation said it wanted to buy three of the Tu-204-100s from the Aviastar-SP plant in Ulyanovsk for Cubana Air Lines.
Ambassador Martinez said Cuban airline companies were already employing about 20 Russian airliners, and that the contract to buy three more planes would be signed soon, after specialists worked out the details of the agreement.
Martinez also said the quality of education offered by the Ulyanovsk Institute of Civil Aviation was very high, adding that more than 400 Cuban pilots, engineers and navigators had completed studies there last year.
He said if a contract were signed with Aviastar-SP, Cuba would send more students to the Ulyanovsk institute.
The Cuban delegation spent two days in Ulyanovsk.
