Vehicle factory `Maribor` is interested in building a new factory for production of buses, the Minister of Economics of Serbia, Mlađan Dinkić, stated yesterday (17/6/2009).

He said that new buses would use hybrid motor drive, i.e. that they would use electric energy or gas, together with classic fuel.

- The Government of the Republic of Serbia showed interest in and readiness to support such an investment, especially because that factory would engage both domestic and foreign suppliers of parts. The biggest part of production would be intended for export - Dinkić said.

The Slovenians are, primarily interested in export to Russian Belorussian market, he added, since Serbia has agreements of free trade with those two countries.

Serbian Minister of Economics, Mlađan Dinkić, stated that the bus factory in Kragujevac would employ around 250 people, at the beginning.

Dinkić has been in Ljubljana today, where he has met Slovenian Minister of Economics Meteja Lahovnik.