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Azerbaijan shows interest in Belarus’ agro-towns, food industry
“Since you are interested in agriculture and, first of all, agro-towns, we are ready to show you our recent achievements in the sector, share experience in the development of the corresponding infrastructure. We can also show you our milking parlors of any modifications and types,” said Mikhail Rusy...

Belarus’ economy presented in Marseille
Marseille Vice Mayor Didier Parakian emphasized the interest in expanding trade and economic cooperation with Belarus and stressed that a number of companies from the region were successfully developing cooperation with Belarusian partners...

World Bank invited to implement electric car project in Belarus
Belarus has advanced quite far in allied fields such as the production of hybrid buses, trolleybuses, and trams. Besides, specialists able to do the job are available in Belarus, said the speaker of the upper chamber of the Belarusian parliament...

Spartak’s store opened in Chinese Harbin
The store in Harbin will be engaged both in retail and wholesale. Spartak is planning to open two more stores in China’s major cities, Shanghai and Beijing. Negotiations are already underway. “Spartak will have an individual booth at AnuFood China 2016 which will open in Beijing on 16 November...

Slovak energy companies ready to work with Belarus in building, operating nuclear power plants
Representatives of Slovak power engineering companies are expected to visit a number of power engineering installations in Belarus on 15-18 November. Among other places the delegation will visit the construction site of the Belarusian nuclear power plant...

Belarus, India plan to set up joint center for commercialization, technology transfer
In 2017-2018 the parties agreed to implement at least 10 projects in the field of microelectronics, supercomputing, optoelectronics, sensors, agriculture, eco-friendly technologies and to set up a joint center for commercialization and technology transfer, and also new manufacturing facilities...

Belarus, South Korea discuss cooperation in production of farm equipment
The parties talked over the ways to step up cooperation between Belarusian and Korean companies in the production of farm equipment and its advancement to third markets...

Minsk to host Day of German Economy 16 November
The event will focus on professional personnel in Belarus. It is held by the German-Belarusian Economic Club in cooperation with the Representation of German Economy in Belarus under the patronage of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany...

Retooling campaign to completely remodel Belarusian Mogilevkhimvolokno by 2020
The head of state said: “Today we’ve made up our minds: in 2020 it will be a completely new enterprise. We would like to finish modernizing the enterprise for the sake of making the products that will surely sell on the market”...

Belarus’ national expo opens at India International Trade Fair
The national expo brings together more than 60 Belarusian companies representing engineering, petrochemistry, light and food industries, healthcare, science and education...

Over 50 Belarusian companies take part in India International Trade Fair
Major Belarusian enterprises will participate in the 36th edition of the India International Trade Fair” (IITF) which runs in New Delhi from 14 to 27 November. Over 50 Belarusian companies will demonstrate their achievements in engineering, petrochemistry, light and food industry, health, science and education...

Lukashenko: Negotiations with Erdogan opened the gates to more intensive Belarusian-Turkish contacts
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko made the relevant statement as he met with workers of the Mogilev-based chemical fiber company OAO Mogilevkhimvolokno...

Rapota: Belarus, Russia will continue working to create equal conditions in Union State
“The issue of mutual economic activity on the territory of each other is always on the agenda of the Council of Ministers, the high-level groups, the Supreme State Council. The aim is to create equal competitive conditions for producers supplying goods to partners. Much has been done in this field, but also there are still a lot of outstanding issues,” Grigory Rapota said...

Belarus attends ITU Telecom World 2016 in Bangkok
ITU Telecom World unites an international exhibition of digital solutions, a roundtable session at the ministerial level and also a summit of leaders (ministers and businessmen) in the information and communication technology. Attending the events will be Communications and Information Technology Minister Sergei Popkov...

Minsk hosts international forum on entrepreneurship
Partaking in the forum are nearly 500 representatives of government bodies, international financial institutions, well-known businessmen, bankers, investors, and foreign experts. Participants will discuss cases related to the introduction of innovations, financial instruments for business promotion, angel investment and future trends...

Belarus, Turkey agree to simplify customs formalities
The document envisages the simplification of customs formalities with the aim of reducing the time spent on the customs clearance of goods at the border. The customs services of Belarus and Turkey will develop a six-month pilot project once the document comes into effect...

Belarusian power vertical urged to step up work with enterprises
We must determine the zones of responsibility. The chairman of the rural council should be the main authority here. He must have certain functions and authorities,” the President said. “But the vertical must work. It is needed to learn to make money. We will make the power vertical work hard and yield results”...

Erdogan: Economies of Belarus and Turkey are complementary
Belarus and Turkey have jointly implemented about 50 projects worth $1.2 billion. The Turkish head of state stressed that the two countries need to strengthen the legal framework so that businessmen could work even more effectively...

Lukashenko: Belarus and Turkey will continue advancing cooperation across the board
Alexander Lukashenko said: “The negotiations that took place today once again confirmed that there are no problems between Belarus and Turkey at the political level. Now we have to direct our attention to economic affairs"...

Lukashenko: Belarus and Turkey should transition to manufacturing cooperation and mutual investments
Alexander Lukashenko remarked: “Belarusian companies are ready to build relations with their Turkish partners in a way as to use the local components instead of simply assembling Belarusian machines and vehicles. The approach will stimulate industrial growth in allied industries"...