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Belarus, EBRD outline priority cooperation areas
Vladimir Semashko met with EBRD President Suma Chakrabarti. The parties discussed the state and prospects of EBRD’s activities in Belarus and outlined priority areas for further development of mutually beneficial cooperation...

Russian Atomenergomash welds reactor vessel for Belarusian nuclear power plant
According to the source, another important stage in manufacturing the reactor for the Belarusian nuclear power plant has been completed...

Belarus, ASEAN to consider opportunities for cooperation in agriculture
During the meeting the sides reached an agreement to jointly consider possibilities for establishing cooperation in agriculture and in the fight against slave trade...

CIS railway transport council to meet in Minsk on 20-21 May
Organizing and taking part in the CIS Railway Transport Council’s session is the most important event for Belarusian Railways this year in international cooperation development, said the source...

BMС to develop cooperation with German industrial companies
German industrial companies have come up with an idea to hold an international technology forum on the premises of Belarusian Steel Works (BMZ trademark) in Zhlobin...

More buyers of gas-powered vehicles expected in Belarus
"Gazprom Transgaz Belarus took part in the expo as a serious energy player. While it is an industrial forum, it has vivid energy overtones, which is confirmed by the composition of participants”...

Gomel to host Belarus-Poland business forum 14 May
Partaking in the forum will be representatives of over 20 Polish companies and of a number of Belarusian enterprises, local government bodies, the Gomel Office of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry...

Snopkov: Agreement portfolio after Xi Jinping’s visit to Belarus totals nearly $18bn
"Belarus and China signed about 50 agreements and memorandums during Xi Jinping’s visit"...

Belarusian MTZ, Gomselmash to set up two assembly enterprises in China in 2015
“The Belarusian agricultural mechanical engineering industry takes active steps to promote its products"...

Interregional business forum to fuel Belarus-China investment cooperation
“The establishment of contacts was the key part of the forum. We learned about Chinese partners, they learned about us. It will allow invigorating investment, trade, and economic cooperation"...

Vitebsk offers joint venture projects to Chinese partners
"We have been cooperating with China for a long time. An agreement with the Heilongjiang province was signed back in 2006. Our delegation went to China four times. We hosted Chinese delegations about the same number of times. But so far the cooperation has been limited to the exchange of information and art groups. The real economy was not involved”...

Minsk determined to step up trade with Latin American countries
“Latin America is important for our country as a platform for entering the global market. Many Latin American countries are of a particular interest to Belarus’ export-oriented economy”...

Russia’s Omsk Oblast seeks to boost all-round cooperation with Belarus
“We are ready to set up joint enterprises on the territory of Belarus and Omsk Oblast. We are interested in all kinds of cooperation ties”...

Minsk to host Belarusian Industrial Forum 2015
One of the central events of the forum will be a plenary meeting, Industrial Integration in the Eurasian Economic Union. The meeting will discuss the coordinated policy of the development of the industrial complexes of the EEU member states...

Belarus to borrow up to $1.4bn to build mining, processing factory
The money will be spent on building a new mining and processing factory using raw materials of the Nezhinskoye section of the Starobinskoye potash salt deposit...

Chinese financial corporation to lend money for second phase of Orsha Linen Mill retooling
The agreement on lending $67 million for the project has been signed by the two sides in accordance with preliminary arrangements...

Belarus, China inked $3.5bn worth of agreements on 10 May
Andrei Kobyakov thanked the Chinese leader for the decision to allocate 800 million yuans as technical economic aid to Belarus for the sake of implementing social projects...

Belarus hopes to attract Chinese scientists to BelBioGrad cluster
According to Vladimir Gusakov, the technological cluster would like to cooperate with Chinese specialists in biology, microbiology, medical, agrarian and nanotechnologies...

Belarusian Mogilevliftmash to make escalators together with Chinese partners
The company has already started preparing the manufacturing site, with the necessary documents already in the pipeline...

Belarus, China sign 25 agreements at interregional business forum
The documents included the agreement of friendship and cooperation between Gomel and Harbin, the establishment of twin town relations between Grodno and Lunnan (Gansu), Polotsk and Mudanjiang...