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Major forum for potential investors in Belarus in September
"The forum will offer a venue for a direct and open dialogue between representatives of international financial institutions, government agencies, foreign investors and the expert community. We intend to highlight Belarus as a promising investment site,” noted Natalya Nikandrova...

Ganja Automobile Plant to assemble 2,000 Belarusian tractors
Minsk Tractor Works and Ganja Automobile Plant signed a memorandum on the supply and assembly of 2,000 Belarusian tractors in Azerbaijan in 2016. The document was signed by Director General of Minsk Tractor Works Fyodor Domotenko and head of the supervisory board of Ganja Automobile Plant Khanlar Fatiyev...

Belarus, Iran plan to set up BelAZ assembly facility
Iran already operates the facility of Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ trademark) which makes trucks and dump trucks. The project to start manufacturing buses is in the pipeline...

Enterprises in China-Belarus industrial park to increase Geely car assembly localization
“It is necessary to get this level of localization by 1 July 2018 so that our cars could be freely moved across the Eurasian Economic Union. To make it happen, it is necessary to invite a number of companies, which will work on their own or in association with Belarusian companies to make automobile components,” stressed Vladimir Semashko...

Pump enclosures for Belarusian nuclear power plant’s first reactor in transit
The set includes four pump enclosures for the main circulating pumps in addition to spacer plates. After welding and assembly operations the products successfully passed hydraulic testing in the presence of representatives of the Belarusian nuclear power plant...

Belarus ready to implement logistics projects together with UAE company DP World
“You understand perfectly well that, located in the center of Europe, particularly at present, Belarus is an important transit link between the West and the East, the North and the South. I would very much like you to see your interest in Belarus during the visit,” said Alexander Lukashenko...

Belarus may join infrastructure projects in Australia
The possibility of Belarus’ participation in infrastructure projects in Australia was discussed during the visit of Roman Sobolev, the Director of the Department for Foreign Economic Activity of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Andrei Grinkevich, the Head of Asia, Australia and Oceania Department, to Canberra...

German company intends to participate in oncology center project in Grodno
The statement was made during a meeting between Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Germany to Belarus Peter Dettmar and Chairman of the Grodno Oblast Executive Committee Vladimir Kravtsov...

Vitebsk-based Rubikon plans to get European GMP certificate in 2016
The company is preparing to enter the Western markets. “We are planning to start with the markets of Eastern Europe. The markets of these countries are growing, and they are more open to generic preparations"...

New Belarus-China cargo railway route opened
The opening of the new railway route is viewed as an important step in implementing the One Belt, One Road initiative (the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road) as well as the state strategy on the joint development of the Beijing – Tianjin – Hebei region...

Belarus, Tajikistan mull over joint ventures to enter third markets
The parties agreed to organize a joint business cooperation section at the October International Economic Forum in Tajikistan...

Belarus views Chile gateway to Latin America markets
The Chilean side informed the Belarusian delegation about the ways Belarusian companies and organizations can take part in a number of infrastructure projects in Chile, and use the Chilean retail network to promote Belarusian goods to the Latin America markets...

Belarusian defense contractors willing to team up with Indonesia
A military delegation of Indonesia led by Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu met with top officials of the State Defense Industries Committee of Belarus on 28 April...

Chinese Zoomlion to faster build enterprise in China-Belarus industrial park Great Stone
For the sake of further considering promising cooperation options an agreement was reached with the Zoomlion management on stepping up efforts to set up an enterprise to make sophisticated machines in the industrial park Great Stone...

World Bank calls for reforming Belarusian state-run enterprises
"Steps are already being taken in this area. Measures to restructure state-run enterprises have been announced. An interagency workgroup has been created to look at their state”...

Belarus, Afghanistan to draw up roadmap for bilateral cooperation
The matter was discussed in a meeting between Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei and Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai in Beijing...

Belarus ready to survey for subsurface resources in Sudan
Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Vladimir Semashko made the relevant statement as he met with Sudanese Oil and Gas Minister Muhammad Zayid Awad...

Vitebsk Oblast seeks to develop cooperation with Chile’s Valparaiso Region
The delegation included Deputy Director of the Foreign Economic Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ruslan Yesin...

Qatar to invest in mutually beneficial projects in Belarus
The Belarusian-Qatari intergovernmental commission in Doha resulted in concrete agreements on stepping up and diversifying Belarusian export, on attracting Qatari investments for implementing mutually beneficial projects in Belarus...

National world-class innovations to be displayed at Belarusian Industrial Forum
World-class innovations are developed in Belarus. Some of them will be displayed at the exhibition. Among them, for example, will be a device for wet cleaning of ventilation air from harmful organic matters...