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MINSK, 23 May (BelTA) - Belenergo is preparing the documents on the Vitebsk hydropower plant to sign a credit agreement and get the approval from the Chinese lender bank, BelTA learnt from Belenergo Deputy Director General Mikhail Luzin. The Vitebsk 40MW hydropower plant is planned to be built on the Western Dvina River by 2015. This will replace about 42,000 tonnes of fuel equivalent per year, which is equivalent to Br35 billion. A contract with China National Electric Equipment...

VITEBSK, 20 May (BelTA) – Favorable conditions for the operation of foreign businessmen have been created in Belarus. The statement was made by Olga Kapacevic, Director of OW Plus (Czechia), a participant of the innovation and investment forum “Innovation business – investments in future” that took place in Vitebsk on 20 May. Belarusian and Czech companies and businessmen can cooperate in various spheres, however, manufacturing is the most effective one, the businesswoman was...

VITEBSK, 20 May (BelTA) – The free economic zone Vitebsk presented 12 projects worth over ?45 million at the international forum “Innovation business – investments in future”. The forum is scheduled to take place in Vitebsk on 20-21 May, BelTA learned from Ilona Terletskaya, Deputy Head of the Investments and Foreign Trade Department of the free economic zone Vitebsk. Investors were offered a project to start manufacturing LED products for lighting houses and structures in the FEZ...

VITEBSK, 20 May (BelTA) – German businessmen discuss the development of industrial cooperation at the international innovative and investment forum “Innovative business – investing into future” in Vitebsk, BelTA learned from Vladimir Avgustinsky, head of the German economic mission in Belarus. According to Vladimir Avgustinsky, the relations between Belarus and Germany are rather advanced. “Belarus and Germany have achieved a rather advanced level of economic relations. Germany is...

VITEBSK, 20 May (BelTA) – Czech and Latvian investors are interested in cooperation with Vitebsk-based plant Evistor. The protocols of intention to set up joint companies were signed during the innovation-investment forum “Innovation Business – Investment in the Future” in Vitebsk on 20 May, BelTA has learnt. Deputy Chairman of the Board of the RAR plant Lubis Gunar told BelTA that the company has over than 50-year-long relations with the Belarusian producers. Setting up a joint...

VITEBSK, 19 May (BelTA) – Venezuelan Culture Days will take place in the Belarusian town of Orsha on 20-21 May, representatives of Orsha Town Hall told BelTA. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Venezuela to Belarus Americo Diaz Nunez, First Secretary of the Embassy and director Gerardo Estrada Martinez and performers of Venezuela will arrive in Orsha. The guests of honor will take part in the opening of an exhibition of portraits of prominent activists of Venezuela’s...