Uzbekistan: Competition committee and German Foreign Ministry discuss cooperation

The State Privatization, Demonopolization, and Competition Development Committee met with the representatives of Germany’s Foreign Ministry to discuss cooperation. The committee has closely worked together with German experts, including Finance Ministry, since 2009, pushing off the Memorandum of Understanding in Privatization and State Property Control. German support helped introduce the Corporate Governance Code in 2016,…

Belarus to boost trade with Pakistan to $1 billion

Belarus and Pakistan can boost trade to $1 billion by 2020, Belarusian Industry Minister Vitaly Vovk said during an event marking Pakistan National Day on March 23. “Belarus-Pakistan relations are growing stronger year by year and the bilateral cooperation is developing fruitfully in all fields,” Vitaly Vovk said. “The last two years became a watershed…

Kyrgyzstan: exports to EEU up in 2016

Kyrgyzstan has managed to increase deliveries of products to the markets of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) in 2016 despite the decline in its trade turnover with members of the union in the same period, Vice Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Oleg Pankratov said. “If we take the total figure, the drop in external trade with…

Kyrgyzstan: Pakistan interested in cooperation

Pakistan is interested in partnership with Kyrgyzstan in such spheres as medicine, pharmaceuticals industry, IT technologies, agriculture, and also in the mining industry, members of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Iran stated at a meeting with delegation of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan. The Speaker Chynybay Tursunbekov said that Kyrgyzstan had created a liberal…

Belarus: ways to boost foreign trade sketched out

An expanded-participation meeting of the board of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus reviewed the ministry’s performance in 2016, the press service of the ministry reported. The meeting gathered members of the government, representatives of the Belarus President Administration, the National Assembly, the National Bank, heads of the national government agencies, region executive committees…