The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade will hold an open competition to select the new head of the Antonov state aircraft manufacturing enterprise (Kiev). Antonov’s President and General Designer Dmytro Kiva announced this to reporters, the CFTS correspondent reports.

Kiva said that he met with Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius last week and that they preliminarily agreed that he would remain in his post for now and that a competition would be held later to select the new head of the enterprise.

As reported, Kiva’s contract expires this month.