According to the preliminary data, Belarus’ gold and foreign currency reserves totaled $7,315 million as of January 1, if calculated in accordance with methods of the International Monetary Fund, the Information and PR Department of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus reported. In December 2017, the country’s gold and foreign currency reserves went…
Another eleven Belarusian companies will be supplying dairy products to China, Aleksei Bogdanov, head of the main department for foreign economic affairs at the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry, declared. “Following a recent visit of Belarus’ Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats to China, another eleven dairy companies were granted access to the Chinese market,…
The Belarusian mechanical engineering company Belkommunmash is considering the possibility of selling electric buses to Tehran. This possibility and other matters of cooperation were discussed as Minsk Mayor Andrei Shorets met with Ambassador of Iran Mostafa Oveisi in Minsk, the press service of the Minsk City Executive Committee reported. Minsk and Tehran are sister cities.…
Belarus is in negotiations on selling beef to Iran. The possibility of selling Belarusian beef to Iran was discussed as Ambassador of Belarus to Iran Yuri Lazarchik met with Iranian Deputy Minister of Agricultural Jihad Hassan Rokni, the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported. The sides discussed current matters of Belarus-Iran…
Minsk Motor Plant (MMZ) is ready for the introduction of the Euro-5 emission standard, the company’s press service reported. Diesel engines for trucks, buses, and other heavy vehicles require complicated and expensive systems for neutralizing exhausts in order to observe the Euro-5 environmental standard. MMZ is ready for changes on the transport market of the…
The trade between Russia and Belarus will reach $26 billion in 2017, Belarus’ Ambassador to Moscow Igor Petrishenko. “This year the trend of economy recovery and growth is observed both in the Russian Federation and also in the Republic of Belarus. The primary indicator is the level of economic relations, the level of trade. It…
Belarus hopes to supply electricity to the common electricity market of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), Belarus’ Energy Minister Vladimir Potupchik declared. “We hope to export electricity to the common electricity market of the Eurasian Economic Union after the common gas market is established and equal rights for all the countries are created. Our electricity…