In 2017 the Belarus-Israel trade rose by more than 50%, the Belarusian Embassy in Israel reported. On May 21-22 an official delegation headed by Belarus Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Rusy visited Israel for the 6th meeting of the joint Belarusian-Israeli committee on trade and economic cooperation. “During the meeting the parties reviewed the economic cooperation…
“Today’s situation in the world forces all to strengthen the country’s defense capability,” Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said opening the V International Exhibition Weapons Systems and Military Equipment KADEX-2018 in Astana. “Our country pursues peaceful policy aimed at strengthening good-neighborly relations with near and far-abroad countries. However, today’s situation in the world forces all to…
A delegation of the China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure), headed by Executive Director Wang Yi, held a business meeting in the International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA), the bank said in a message. As part of the meeting, Abbas Ibrahimov, acting chairman of the IBA board, spoke about the IBA’s activities, its role in…
Cereal producer Agricom Group has opened an oat flake facility in the village of Mykhailo-Kotsiubynsky in Chernihiv region to increase production capacity. Construction of the $10.5-million facility took three years and would increase production capacity by 1 million kilograms per month, said the company. Investment for the construction was made up by 40% of the…
The Deposit Guarantee Fund of Ukraine has extended the terms of liquidation of PJSC Real Bank, the Fund’s press service reports. “The Executive Directorate of the Deposit Guarantee Fund approved a decision dated May 17 No.1384, to extend the term of liquidation of PJSC Real Bank for one year, from May 21, 2018 until May…
Encouraged by the success of the change at its Sikupilli location, Prisma has decided to switch its Lasnamae and Mustika Centre supermarkets to 24-hour schedules as well. “A lot of people get back from their country homes late at night during the summer,” Prisma Peremarket spokesperson Piret Lankots said. “We want to offer them the…
Bykhov Vegetable Canning Factory sent the first batch of canned products to Tajikistan, the factory’s turnaround manager Alexander Morozov reported. “The arrangement to deliver our products to Tajikistan was reached during the Belarus National Expo in Dushanbe. We responded promptly to the requests of our partners and sent a consignment of canned green peas, corn…