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Interest in Belarusian assistance with home construction projects in Venezuela
The statement was made during the latest meeting of Ambassador of Belarus to Venezuela Oleg Paferov and Venezuelan Minister of Housing and Habitats Manuel Quevedo...

Over 40 Chinese companies present products in Minsk
The program of the expo includes business meetings, presentations, and visits to Belarusian enterprises...

Gomselmash sends draft licensing agreement to Turkey’s Paksan
Gomselmash and Paksan signed the agreement to establish a joint venture to assemble forage harvesters during the official visit of a Belarusian government delegation led by Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov to Turkey in November 2015...

Poland seeks closer cooperation with Belarus in agriculture
“Thanks to its EU membership, Poland got access to more efficient up-to-date production technologies. We are ready to share our experience with Belarusian counterparts and strengthen cooperation in the agricultural sector”...

Vitebsk to host innovative business forum on 17-18 November
The forum will be attended by representatives of small, medium-sized and big business, the executive and legislative authorities, business support centers, associations of entrepreneurs of Belarus, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and China...

Minsk to host Belarusian-Turkish business forum on 11 November
Participants of the forum are expected to discuss promising avenues of development of Belarus-Turkey trade, economic, and investment cooperation. Belarusian participants will be able to hold negotiations with top executives of Turkish companies...

Belarus’ food exports projected to total $2.1bn in 2016
“According to preliminary data, in January-October the export growth dynamics was not bad. In monetary terms, the export amounted to 99.3% compared to last year, which is roughly $1.9 billion. At the end of the year we will beat the 100% target. We expect the export to total $2-2.1 billion"...

Belarus interested in Polish fruit, vegetable processing technologies
Blueberry farming is a new kind of business in Belarus. The area under blueberries is close to 700ha. “We are also interested in new approaches to processing blueberries. We sell them fresh for now,” the official told the Polish delegation...

Belarus-Pakistan trade on the rise
In January-September 2016 the trade between Belarus and Pakistan totaled $38.6 million, with Belarus exporting $30 million worth of products to Pakistan. The deliveries of Belarusian tractors increased by 7.8%, tractor parts by 55.4%...

Gomel, Chengdu to establish sister-city relations
The relevant agreement will be signed during a visit of an official delegation of Gomel Oblast to Sichuan Province on 7-11 November. The delegation headed by Vice-Governor Oleg Pochinok includes representatives oflocal authorities, public utilities, private business...

Belarus exports $55,000 worth of agricultural products to UAE in 2016
“It is the beginning of work with the United Arab Emirates. Those were the first meetings, the first contracts were concluded. However, in the first ten months of the year Belarus exported $55,000 worth of agricultural products to the UAE”...

Expo in Minsk to showcase goods from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Companies from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region will present their potential in innovative technology, logistics, construction, industry and tourism...

Large logistics center to be built in Belarus with participation of Chinese corporation
Belarusian Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov said at the fifth meeting of the heads of government of the Central and Eastern European countries and China 16 + 1) in Riga. The center is expected to serve the trade flows between Europe and Asia...

Crucial infrastructure of Great Stone industrial park to be built in 2017
The China-Belarus industrial park Great Stone is the biggest project of the two countries. “We have made progress in the construction of our major bilateral project Great Stone”...

Belarus plans to expand presence on China’s agro-industrial market
“We hope that this year we will be able to complete the procedure for beef access. Besides, the creation of joint companies in China will help intensify the sales of our agricultural equipment,” noted Andrei Kobyakov as he met with Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China Li Keqiang in Riga...

Agreements signed to implement projects worth $250m in Mogilev Oblast
These projects are nearly ready for launch. Most of the investments will be channeled into Mogilev Oblast’s southeast where four major investment projects are supposed to be implemented...

Prodexpo 2016 to gather over 220 exhibitors from ten countries in Minsk
Over 250 official guests from different countries interested in supplying Belarusian foodstuffs, drinks and other food industry products to their markets have been registered so far to attend the expo...

Belarus, USA discuss status of negotiations on Belarus’ WTO accession
“We believe that we have good chances of reaching new levels of cooperation in investments and bilateral trade, and also in other areas. We see some positive signals"...

Belarus to hold nearly 60 events during European Quality Week
The Committee is expected to organize business meetings, roundtable sessions, seminars and trainings with the organizations of the food, light, construction, furniture, mechanical engineering, petrochemical, oil refinery and other industries and business...

Plans to build new air traffic control center in Belarus
According to the Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus, the country needs a new air traffic control center because it will allow increasing the throughput capacity of the national air space in addition to making flights safer...