GOMEL, 27 October (BelTA) – A company of the Gomel Oblast Drama Theatre will take part in the 20th international theatre festival, Slavonic Theatre Meetings, which will be held in Chernigov on 27 October – 3 November, BelTA learnt from head of the Gomel Drama Theatre Valentina Moiseenko. Best stagings will be presented by the permanent participants of the festival including the Chernigov Oblast Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre named after Taras Shevchenko, the Gomel Oblast...

MINSK, 23 October (BelTA) - Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and Svetlogorsk Khimvolokno signed a loan contract in Minsk on 23 October. JBIC will allocate Khimvolokno JPY3bn (?24 million) under the investment project on upgrading the polyether textile threads production to increase its capacity to 38,500 tons a year. This is one of the biggest projects on the Khimvolokno development program designed to run for 2006-2011. The project envisages construction of new capacities...

MINSK, 23 October (BelTA) – A loan agreement between Japan Bank for International Cooperation, the international division of Japan Finance Corporation and the Svetlogorsk Khimvolokno is to be signed in Minsk on 23 October, said deputy of the House of Representatives of the Japanese Parliament, Chairman of the Association of Friendship and Parliamentary Links with the Republic of Belarus Yoshinori Ohno. He met with Sergei Maskevich, Chairman of the International Affairs and CIS Relations...

GOMEL, 23 October (BelTA) - The Days of the Gomel oblast will be held in the South-West Administrative District of Moscow on 23-24 October, BelTA learnt from Andrei Demidovets, head of the foreign economic relations department of the Gomel oblast executive committee. During the visit to Moscow, agreements are expected to be signed between regional and town executive committees of the Gomel oblast and the executive councils of the South-West Administrative District of Moscow. According to...

MOSCOW, 20 October (BelTA) – The Days of the Gomel Oblast will be held in the South-West Administrative District of Moscow on 23-24 October. They will be held within the framework of the Year of Belarus in the Russian capital, BelTA learnt from the Belarusian Embassy in Russia. The solemn opening of the Days of the Gomel Oblast in the South-West Administrative District of Moscow will be held with the participation of Chairman of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Alexander Yakobson and...

GOMEL, 19 October (BelTA) – The Gomel oblast and the Mazandaran Province of Iran signed a memorandum of cooperation. The agreement was signed by Chairman of the oblast executive committee Alexander Yakobson and Mazandaran Province Governor Seyyed Mohammad Karimi on 17 October, BelTA has learnt. The two sides also sealed protocols on cooperation in the economic and agricultural sectors and between the chambers of commerce and industry. The authorities of Gomel and the town of Sari, the...

GOMEL, 16 October (BelTA) – Specialists of the Belarusian oil company Belorusneft have started seismic exploration of the Band-e-Karkheh field in southern Iran, the Belorusneft press service told BelTA. The seismic exploration is carried out using Belarusian equipment. It started in line with the contract signed by Belorusneft and the private Iranian oil company Petropars Institute (PPI) in April 2009. The territory to be surveyed is as large as 874 square kilometers. Around 20 employees...

GOMEL, 16 October (BelTA) – The manufacturing corporation Gomselmash is setting up a joint production facility in Ukraine. In line with the agreement signed between Gomselmash and the Kherson Machine-Building Plant, the new joint company will start to assemble combine harvesters this year, BelTA learnt from Vladimir Sinner, deputy director of the regional sales department of Gomselmash. At the beginning, the joint company will assemble combine harvesters Palesse GS812 and Palesse GS12....

GOMEL, 15 October (BelTA) – The Gomel oblast and the Mazandaran province of Iran will sign a cooperation agreement within the next two days. The agreement as well as other documents will become the basis for promoting economic relations between the two provinces, Mazandaran Province Governor Seyyed Mohammad Karimi told media in Gomel on 15 October. The Governor heads an official delegation of Iran during its visit to the Gomel oblast, BelTA has learnt. According to the Governor, there are...

GOMEL, 13 October (BelTA) – A delegation of Iran led by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Iran to Belarus Seyyed Abdollah Hosseini and Mazandaran Province Governor Seyyed Mohammad Karimi is expected to visit the Gomel oblast on 14-18 October, BelTA learned from Marina Filonova, Chief Advisor for the Gomel Oblast Governor. The visit is supposed to foster trade and economic cooperation, mutual promotion of goods and services onto the markets of the two countries and establish...