MINSK, 16 March (BelTA) – Svetlogorsk Khimvolokno has plans to implement three major investment projects in 2011, BelTA has learnt from the company. First, the company plans to boost production of polyether filament to 38,500 tonnes per year. The output growth will make up Br60 billion. The second investment project envisages the increase in the production of soft polypropylene packages (the output growth is estimated at Br17 billion). Third, the company will continue the upgrade of the...

GOMEL, 25 February (BelTA) – Gomel will be presented the Belarus’ Capital of Culture 2011 certificate and the CIS Capital of Culture 2011 certificate in an official ceremony on 28 February, BelTA learnt from the culture department of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. The invitations to attend the event have been sent to members of the government of Belarus, heads the CIS Council for Humanitarian Cooperation, the CIS Interstate Humanitarian Cooperation Fund, representatives of the...

MINSK, 23 February (BelTA) – A Chinese investor will take part in the construction of the soda ash plant in Gomel Oblast, Anatoly Lis, Deputy Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Minister, told a press conference on 23 February, BelTA has learned. The Construction and Architecture Ministry of Belarus and a Chinese company have already signed an investment agreement, Anatoly Lis said. “We have started developing the deposit. It has been explored already,” Anatoly Lis added....

GOMEL, 21 February (BelTA) – Italian businessmen are going to launch investment projects in agriculture and tourism in Gomel Oblast, Claudio Catania, President of the Italy-Belarus Chamber of Commerce, told reporters on 19 February as he took part in the Belarus-Italy regional forum in Gomel, BelTA has learned. Italy is also interested in energy and environmental projects in Belarus. According to Claudio Catania, Gomel Oblast will consider investment projects in the near future. In March...

GOMEL, 18 February (BelTA) – Gomel is hosting a two-day Belarus-Italy forum, BelTA has learnt. Heads of more than 10 Italian companies (Micro Leasing, Marcantonini S.R.L., Bianchi Casseforme S.R.L., others) and civil organizations have arrived in Gomel to get familiar with the economic potential of the region. Businessmen and representatives of the Chamber of Commerce Italy-Belarus have already discussed investment and innovation cooperation in the Gomel-Raton Free Economic Zone (FEZ)....

GOMEL, 15 February (BelTA) – A Belarusian-Italian regional forum will take place in Gomel on 18-19 February, BelTA learnt from Chairperson of the Economy Committee of the Oblast Executive Committee Elvira Karnitskaya. Partaking in the forum will be nearly 25 representatives of Italian business and civil organizations. The forum will highlight investment and innovation cooperation, expansion of mutually beneficial trade and collaboration in the social sector. The Gomel Office of the...

GOMEL, 20 December (BelTA) – The unsanctioned protest of Belarusian opposition in Minsk on 19 December will not affect the international observers' assessment, independent observer from Germany Edmund Lengfelder told reporters in Gomel on 20 December. In his words, the scenes of riots did not impress him. “Young people armed with rods and shovels were trying to break into an administrative building. Any reasonable person would understand that it was just an attempt to start a row and...

GOMEL, 17 December (BelTA) – Early voting in Gomel Oblast is conducted in strict compliance with Belarusian legislation and is highly organized, BelTA learned from CIS observer Oleg Kolpachuk after he visited a number of polling stations in Gomel. According to Oleg Kolpachuk, who has been in Gomel Oblast since 15 December, he did not have any remarks regarding the operation of precinct commissions. “Polling stations are supplied with all the necessary documents, including visual...

MINSK, 16 December (BelTA) – Japan is going to implement more projects to equip Belarusian hospitals in the Chernobyl-hit regions, Charge d’Affaires ad interim of Japan to Belarus Kiyoshi Matsuzaki told a press conference dedicated to the national holiday of Japan – the Emperor’s Birthday. Kiyoshi Matsuzaki said that Japan began to supply hospitals located in the affected regions with medical equipment in 2004. Since then 18 projects have been carried out. Five new project documents...

MINSK, 13 December (BelTA) - Around $1 million was channeled into local initiatives under the EU/UNDP Project “Minimizing the impact of the Chernobyl accident in the Republic of Belarus”. A comparable amount was drawn from local sources, BelTA learnt from Vladislav Khilkevich, information coordinator, UNDP Office in Belarus. The project was implemented from July 2009 to December 2010 in four districts of Gomel Oblast (Khoiniki, Zhitkovichi, Vetka, Buda-Koshelevo). One of the key results...