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Belarusian Gomselmash starts testing agricultural machines in Pakistan
Gomselmash is testing forage harvesters, which had already been shipped to Pakistan. Those are three mounted rotary mower conditioners Palesse SN15 and a trailed mower conditioner Palesse ST42...

Russia’s Tomsk Oblast ready to adopt Belarus’ experience in agriculture, forestry
Andrei Knorr and Grodno Oblast First Deputy Chairman Ivan Zhuk signed a memorandum of understanding on the participation of Grodno specialists in the designing and construction projects for agricultural purposes in Tomsk Oblast...

WIPO Technology and Innovation Support Centers to be set up in Belarus
According to the ministry, the document was signed during the meeting of Permanent Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva Yuri Ambrazevich and Director General of the National Intellectual Property Center Piotr Brovkin with WIPO Director General Francis Gurry...

Business Days in Gomel to bring together delegations from 15 countries
Attending the international business event will be officials and businessmen from Russia, Latvia, Georgia, Slovenia, Italy, Vietnam, Croatia and several other countries. Ukraine will be the most represented country with five delegations...

Russia to restore oil deliveries; Belarus to annul transit tariff increase
“We have settled all current issues. You know that half of oil supplies to Belarus was blocked in Q3. We were supposed to get 6 million tonnes, but were only getting 3 million tonnes. Now everything will be restored,” the Vice Premier noted...

Belarus, China plan to jointly produce electric vehicles
The parties discussed ways to expand the Belarusian-Chinese cooperation in science, technology and innovations, including in the development of technologies for the automotive industry...

Lipetsk Oblast shows interest in more food supplies from Belarus
The delegation of Lipetsk Oblast got familiar with the Belarusian technologies of road construction and repair, the cooperative procurement system...

Belarus’ Energy Ministry hopes to strengthen ties with Siemens
A supplementary agreement will be signed with Siemens in the coming days. Plans have been made to set up a working group. It will examine the approaches to the cooperation and the ways to expand it, the possibilities of setting up new production facilities...

S&P affirms Belarus 'B-/B' ratings
The agency affirmed its 'B-' long-term and 'B' short-term sovereign credit ratings on the Republic of Belarus. The outlook is Stable...

Belkommunmash offers electrobuses to St Petersburg for 2018 FIFA World Cup
According to Vladimir Korol, the company plans to develop another novelty within the next six months. “It will be a modern electrobus, a hybrid with on-board accumulators,” he explained...

Plans to raise Belarus-Saint Petersburg trade to at least $2bn
The program on Belarus-Saint Petersburg cooperation in 2017-2021, which was signed in Minsk on 7 October, will contribute to the advancement of manufacturing cooperation ties. It will also reinvigorate existing contacts and will enable conditions for the implementation of new joint projects...

Belarus, Saint Petersburg sign program of cooperation for 2017-2021
The program was signed following the ninth meeting of the Belarus-Saint Petersburg Business Cooperation Council chaired by Belarusian Prime minister Andrei Kobyakov and Saint Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko in Minsk...

Belarus invites Saint Petersburg to expand cooperation in innovations
“The great scientific and manufacturing potential of Belarus and Saint Petersburg creates the necessary preconditions,” the Prime Minister stressed...

Belarus ready to sell more passenger vehicles to Saint Petersburg
The choice includes innovative electricity-powered vehicles for mass transit systems — electric buses and trolleybuses with autonomous traction...

Delegation of China’s Guangdong to visit Minsk Oblast
Participants in the forum are expected to sign a memorandum of cooperation between the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province and Belarus’ Industrial Park Development Company...

Minsk to host Belarusian-German Energy Forum 10 October
The program of the forum envisages a plenary session “Current development of the Energy-Efficiency Policies in the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Belarus” and two themed panel sessions which will consider sustainable energy supplies, the use of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency in buildings and other issues...

Belarus negotiating purchasing oil from Iran
“We are now in negotiations with Iran, which is beside itself trying to find buyers for Iranian oil. Iran is ready to reduce prices for us. It may even go as far as to use Mozyr Oil Refinery or some other refinery to process its oil and sell derivatives wherever it likes," said Alexander Lukashenko...

Lukashenko: Private sector in Belarus should get a powerful development incentive
“With this in mind it is necessary to promptly develop the legislation to enable favorable conditions without formalistic restrictions, far-fetched requirements and excessive precautions,” said the head of state...

Belarusian Railways ready to transport cargo from Great Stone park to EEU, EU
“Belarusian Railways, which operates key transport corridors of the Silk Road and is located on the border between the EEU and the EU, is a major transport and logistics hub today. It is ready to provide safe and timely rail transportation of cargo from the Chinese-Belarusian industrial park Great Stone to the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union,” Vladimir Morozov noted...

BelAZ trucks on display in Las Vegas
The design of these trucks (models 75581 and 75310) implements all the latest innovative engineering solutions of the Belarusian company that make BelAZ trucks so popular in many countries across the globe in addition to demonstrating excellent performance...