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Customs Union will create new opportunities for Belarus-Poland partnership, Waldemar Pawlak says

Waldemar Pawlak in Minsk

MINSK, 14 January (BelTA) – The Customs Union of Belarus, Russia, and Kazakhstan will create new opportunities for the Belarus-Poland cooperation, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Poland Waldemar Pawlak said at the session of the Belarusian-Polish commission for economic cooperation in Minsk.

"The Customs Union creates new terms for trade and cooperation between our countries,” said Waldemar Pawlak. He noted that the interest of Polish companies to the cooperation, investments and privatization in Belarus is constantly growing. “Privatization creates big potential for interaction. The Polish experience in privatization can be applied in Belarus,” he said. Waldemar Pawlak also outlined the projects in power industry (construction of a power plant in Zelva) as a promising field of cooperation.  Among the priorities of the Belarus-Polish cooperation Waldemar Pawlak named oil and gas industries, chemical industry, rail transportation, and agriculture.

Pawlak also stressed that Poland is interested in supporting the Belarus-EU contacts. “Apart from that, we welcome the intention of Belarus to enter the WTO. We would also like to see the conditions created for concrete measures within the Eastern Partnership initiative. This will facilitate the cooperation between our countries,” he said.

Belarus and Poland have a big untapped potential for the development of economic ties and business cooperation, according to Waldemar Pawlak.  “The competitiveness of our countries on the international markets has noticeably increased. We hope that, despite the crisis, we will preserve and develop the economic ties between our countries,” said Waldemar Pawlak.

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