RECHITSA REGION, 16 July (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko admitted that he does not think about pre-election publicity moves and the oncoming presidential campaign yet. The Belarus President made the relevant statement for mass media on 16 July, BelTA has learned. “Properly arranging the harvesting campaign, preparing the next year’s budget along with the program for the next five-year term, arranging the All-Belarusian People’s Congress are the most important...

MINSK, 15 July (BelTA) – The Belarusian Steel Works (BMZ trademark) is planning to launch the new wire rod mill by 2014. The capacity of the new mill is 800,000 tonnes per year, BMZ director general Anatoly Savenok told reporters. The ?250mn project is envisaged in the company’s business plan for 2011-2015. The BMZ hopes this project will help it consolidate the positions on the market of wire rod, reinforcing steel and cast billets (bloom), Anatoly Savenok said. The investment projects...

MINSK, 7 July (BelTA) – The Gomel Chemical Plant has been undergoing authorization of its products in line with the European Community Regulation REACH, the company told BelTA. The plant is expected to complete the authorization of chemical substances in nitrogen, phosphoric and potash fertilizers in November 2010, and next year the chemical substances in other products exported to the EU, including sulfuric acid, cryolite, sodium sulphate. Gomel products are tested in a certified...

GOMEL, 1 July (BelTA) – Reaching the trade of $6 billion between Belarus and Moscow is a very ambitious goal, Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov said at the 17th session of the Belarus-Moscow Business Cooperation Council in Gomel. According to the Vice-Premier, we had an all-time record trade of $5.3 billion in the pre-crisis years. Last year it made up $3 billion. This year the trade between Belarus and Moscow has been on an increase. In January-April it made up $1.133...

GOMEL, 1 July (BelTA) – There should be no exceptions and restrictions in the Customs Union, Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov said at the 17th session of the Belarus-Moscow Business Cooperation Council in Gomel. The main point today is whether the participating countries are ready for that at this very moment. “Belarus is ready,” he said. According to the Vice-Premier, the sides have been working on the Customs Union since 1995. The new page in the history of the...

GOMEL, 24 June (BelTA) – Over 700 partakers have gathered for the 7th national folk art festival Beraginya in the town of Oktyabrsky, the Gomel Oblast, BelTA learnt from the organizing committee of the festival. Partaking in the forum are children’s and youth folk groups, folk music ensembles and dancers, performers from Belarus, Russia, Poland, Moldova. There have also been invited folk art amateurs from Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, scientists from different countries, representatives of...

GOMEL, 9 June (BelTA) – Slovakia would like to develop joint tourism business with Belarus in general and Gomel Oblast in particular, Ambassador extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Slovakia to Belarus Marian Servatka told reporters in Gomel. The diplomat is confident that by traveling people get to learn more the history and traditions of a country and establish contacts which will then grow into business ties. “There are a lot of mountains and thermal springs in Slovakia. Belarus is...

MINSK, 8 June (BelTA) – The winners of the Contest of Project Ideas were 35 organizations from the Vetka, Zhitkovichi, Khoiniki and Buda-Koshelevo Regions, Gomel Oblast. The total funding will exceed $0.5 million, BelTA learnt from Vladislav Khilkevich, Communications Associate of the UNDP Office in Belarus. The contest was held as part of the EU/UNDP action “Combat the Negative Effects of Chernobyl Disaster in Belarus”. The most interesting and economically viable project...

GOMEL, 20 May (BelTA) – The investments agreements at the amount of $16.5 million were signed at the Gomel Economic Forum on 20 May, BelTA has learnt. According to the signed documents, in the near future several big projects with the participation of foreign and Belarusian investors will be implemented in the region. The Russian Grin Company intends to invest $10 million in the construction of a hypermarket in Gomel within a year. One more big trade facility will be constructed by the...

GOMEL, 19 May (BelTA) – More than 40 delegations from 22 countries will take part in the Gomel Investment Forum. Over the recent years it will be the largest number of the participants which are expected to attend the forum, Chairman of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Alexander Yakobson said at the opening ceremony of the Spring in Gomel Expo on 19 May, BelTA has learnt. A Czech delegation and a delegation of the Krasnodar Krai (Russian Federation) will become the most...