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Belarus, Vietnam agree on delivery of Belarusian products worth $24m
In particular, the sides signed contracts on the delivery of MAZ, MTZ, BelAZ vehicles to Vietnam, agreements and memorandums on the delivery of alcohol products, tires, potash fertilizers, powdered milk, dried baby food and sports nutrition...

Central banks of Belarus, Lithuania to expand cooperation
“The parties continued the discussion of the issues related to the monetary policy implemented by the central banks of the two countries, shared information on the integration process in the financial and banking spheres within the Eurasian Economic Union and the current trends in the economic sector of the eurozone”...

Draft program documents to guide Belarus development in 2016 approved
Among the economic priorities for the next year the head of state mentioned export growth, efforts to bolster the positions of Belarusian manufacturers on the home market, the introduction of new technologies, and the reduction of prime costs...

Products of Belarus’ Academy of Sciences on display in Ashgabat soon
It will feature about 40 exhibits demonstrating water purification technologies, crush mills, products for agriculture, an unmanned aerial vehicle system, and the Belarusian space system for the remote sensing of the Earth...

Hungarian delegation to visit BelNPP construction site
The delegation plans to meet with the Ostrovets District authorities and see the Information Center in Ostrovets and the training center of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant. The Hungarian delegation will also visit the nuclear power information center in Minsk...

Belneftekhim, Rosneft discuss ways to improve cooperation effectiveness
According to the source, this week Belneftekhim and the Belarusian oil refineries continue yearly negotiations with the Russian oil companies that supply oil to the Belarusian oil refineries for the sake of discussing terms of next year’s deliveries...

Brazil eager to set up technological park, fertilizer mixing plant with Belarus
The parties exchanged views on the current state and development prospects of the bilateral trade and economic relations and discussed matters related to the establishment of cooperation ties between Parana and Belarus’ Grodno Oblast...

Brest, Penza to develop cooperation in cattle breeding
"We view this experience as very positive and would like to adopt some technological solutions and to organize closer mutually beneficial economic cooperation in this regard," said Andrei Burlakov...

Belarus, Ecuador to implement about 20 R&D projects
The matter was discussed during the meeting of the Committee’s Chairman Alexander Shumilin and Ecuadorian Minister Coordinator of Knowledge and Talent Management Andres Arauz...

MTZ ships €12.9 million worth of tractors to Cuba
"Nearly 70 more tractors will be shipped to Cuba in 2015. We concluded this contract at the exhibition in Havana. The supplies will be held with the assistance of the United States"...

Belarus, China’s Gansu Province busy implementing seven investment projects
Their progress was discussed during the meeting of Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Anatoly Kalinin and Ding Zhongjun, head of the representative office of the Gansu Province Foreign Trade Society...

Public access to live Belarusian nuclear power plant promised
"Tours allow citizens to see for themselves that it is a cutting-edge world-level facility"...

Belarus, OECD launch project to promote small, medium-sized enterprises
The project was presented during the OECD Eurasia Week 2015 in Paris. The Belarusian delegation was headed by Deputy Economy Minister Irina Kostevich...

Astrakhan seen as springboard for Belarusian goods to Caspian region countries
"We have good transport infrastructure. Astrakhan is located at the intersection of two transmodal corridor: North-South and East-West,” Vice Governor - Chairman of the Astrakhan Oblast Government Konstantin Markelov said...

Belarus interested in importing more fish from Russia’s Astrakhan Oblast
“We are interested in products, which are in short supply in Belarus — cooled, frozen, and dried fish. Belarus buys the kinds of fish which are not produced locally," Belarusian Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats said...

Semashko: Degree of localization of BelGee production will reach 50% by July 2018
The first phase of the plant will be launched by the end of 2016. In 2017, it should produce 60,000 cars. The Deputy Prime Minister drew attention to the fact that the perspective capacity of the plant is 120,000 cars per year...

Belarus to present its trade cooperation potential in Marseilles in 2016
It is expected that invited to the presentation will be businessmen of Marseilles and the entire region, the press service added...

Azerbaijan ready to set up more enterprises using Belarusian technologies
"Belarus and Azerbaijan have advanced relations to the level which matches the interests of two nations and can characterize them as the relations of strategic partners"...

Belarus to host joint enterprises for processing Azerbaijani raw materials
Belarus and Azerbaijan are also interested in raising the capacity of joint ventures and expanding the range of equipment assembled in Azerbaijan...

Belarus offers to supply buses, trains to Azerbaijan
Alexander Lukashenko believes that the Belarusian participation might be useful in the transport infrastructure improvement projects in Azerbaijan...