GOMEL, 25 November (BelTA) – The Belarusian mechanical engineering company Gomselmash has sent the first batch of cotton harvesters to Cameroon, BelTA learned from Igor Korotkevich, First Deputy Director of the company’s Regional Sales Department. The harvesters will be delivered to Cameroon in roughly one month. “By that time our specialists will arrive in Cameron in order to prepare the machines for field operation and take part in their testing,” said the Gomselmash...

GOMEL, 14 September (BelTA) – Belarus may become a springboard for Finnish companies to reach the Eurasian Economic Union market, BelTA learned from Aleksej Leppanen, senior advisor at the Finnish state-run organization Finpro, which supports and coordinates Finnish companies on international markets. He took part in the 5th Belarusian-Finnish Economic Forum on 13 September. Aleksej Leppanen said: “Apart from the existing potential of setting up joint ventures Belarus can become an...

The Education, Sport, and Tourism Department of the Gomel City Executive Committee and the Education Office of the Bryansk city administration have signed an agreement on friendship and cooperation, BelTA has learned. The document was signed by Anna Melnikova, Head of the Education, Sport, and Tourism Department of the Gomel City Executive Committee, and Alexander Kravchenko, Head of the Education Office of the Bryansk city administration. The latter attended the August conference of Gomel...

GOMEL, 11 August (BelTA) – The Belarusian industrial group Belorusneft will carry out seismic prospecting at hydrocarbon deposits in Russia and Ukraine, the company’s press service told BelTA. In line with the contract signed with RN-Stavropolneftegaz, which is a daughter enterprise of NK Rosneft, Belarusian specialists will carry out 3D seismic prospecting in an area as large as 185km2 in Stavropol Territory by the end of the year. The project is supposed to produce high-quality...

The Belarusian mechanical engineering company OAO Gomselmash is getting ready to ship a batch of cotton harvesters to Cameroon. It will be the first shipment of agricultural machines to the remote African country, BelTA learned from Yuri Rafayev, Head of the Non-CIS Sales Office at Gomselmash. In his words, the Belarusian company has been able to enter the market of tropical Africa thanks to assistance of its French partner — SAS Podia Company. French businessmen have historically...

GOMEL, 9 June (BelTA) – The Zhlobin-based company Metallprofpererabotka has signed a preliminary agreement on supplying 700,000 tonnes of broken slag to Bryansk Oblast, the Russian Federation. Broken slag is a byproduct of the steel smelting process, Metallprofpererabotka Director Vitaly Kirtsitsky told BelTA. In his words, the first contract for the delivery of 30,000 tonnes of slag of six different fractions has been signed already. Slag is being shipped now. The Russian partners...

Investment documents worth over $300 million have been signed during the Gomel Economic Forum, BelTA has learned. The agreements and protocols of intent were signed by Chairman of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Vladimir Dvornik and representatives of business from China, Russia, Ukraine, Austria, Germany, and Belarus. According to the documents, several major investment projects will be implemented in the region in the near future. The projects include the construction of a crushed...

Official delegations from 13 countries will take part in the international expo Spring in Gomel that will take place in the Gomel Oblast capital city on 19-21 May, BelTA learned from Marina Filonova, Director General of the Gomel branch of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which is the organizer of the forum. As many as 110 people (twice as many as last year) will arrive in Gomel in 21 delegations from CIS and non-CIS states. They will represent state and private...

YELSK DISTRICT, 26 April (BelTA) – Belarus did right to rehabilitate the territories affected by the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said talking to journalists on 26 April, BelTA has learned. Alexander Lukashenko said that when he became President he had a serious decision to make in respect to the contaminated areas. “People were scared. I understood, however, that that was our land and we needed to revive it. We can see the...

Belarus-Russia cooperation should be continued within the framework of the Union State of Belarus and Russia for the sake of minimizing the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. The opinion was voiced by State Secretary of the Union State of Belarus and Russia Grigory Rapota at a press conference in Gomel on 12 April, BelTA has learned. According to the official, it is a very long term goal. So far not all the matters concerning the alleviation of the Chernobyl...