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Sukhoi Superjet Gets MidEast Boost
By: Gregory Polek
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Russia’s Sberbank, Sukhoi Civil Aircraft and Abu Dhabi Investment Company (Invest AD) yesterday signed a trilateral letter of intent to cooperate in the Middle East in marketing and promotion of the Sukhoi Superjet SSJ100.

“In light of the recently adopted Sberbank development strategy for 2014-2018, we aim at becoming a global partner for our clients,” said Alexander Dementiev, Sberbank global head of financial institutions. “We are ready to support [Sukhoi Civil Aircraft] interests at any spot in the world.”

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft president Andrey Kalinovsky characterized the Middle East as one of the SSJ100’s priority markets. “In this regard, today we signed the letter of intent in order to optimize funding proposals related to purchase of our aircraft by new customers in this region.”