A solemn ceremony to open an honorary consulate of Slovakia took place in Brest on 17 October, BelTA has learned. The authority of the new diplomatic representative office will extend to Brest Oblast and Grodno Oblast. Director General of OAO Prodtovary Mikhail Kozich was appointed honorary consul. During the ceremony Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Slovakia to Belarus Josef Migas noted that it was the second consulate of Slovakia in Belarus. The first one started...

Foreign direct investment has traditionally acted as an instrument to transfer not only foreign capital, but also technology. Without the participation of foreign capital, the development of Belarus will be slow, and, most likely, reverse. In order to attract foreign direct investment in the country and stimulate the growth of the country's competitiveness, we have to integrate ourselves into the rapidly changing world economy and the world order, find our place in global value chains,...

A delegation of Brest Oblast will make an official visit to China's Anhui Province on 11-15 September, BelTA learned from Mikhail Batsenko, the chairman of the economy committee of the Brest Oblast Executive Committee. The delegation is led by Chairman of the Brest Oblast Executive Committee Anatoly Lis. The delegation includes the heads of the city of Brest and Bereza District, the Brest Free Economic Zone, the regional office of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Brest'...

The SEHA League Final Four will take place in Brest, BelTA learned from the executive committee of SEHA Gazprom League. The final of the South East Handball Association tournament will be held in Belarus on 7-9 April. The final will feature Handball Club Meshkov Brest, Telekom Veszprem, Vardar, PPD Zagreb. Semi-final matches are scheduled for Friday, 7 April (Meshkov Brest will face current champions Telekom Veszprem, Vardar will play against PPD Zagreb). The 3rd place match and...

A decision on including the city of Brest in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha visa-free area is expected by the end of the year, Belarusian Sports and Tourism Minister Alexander Shamko told reporters at BelTA's press center on 3 April. “Today foreign nationals can visit Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Augustow Canal and Grodno without a visa. We see in which direction to move and what to do to promote the development of these regions. A working group is analyzing the situation in Grodno, which is...

The Brest Puppet Theater has been invited to take part in the international children's and youth theater festival Yalla Yalla which is due to take place in Bethlehem, Palestine on 1-10 April, art director of the theater Mikhail Shavel told BelTA. The Brest Puppet Theater will bring one of its oldest plays, Rygorka – Yasnaya Zorka, (Rygorka – A Bright Star) to the festival that will feature more than ten theater companies. The Brest theater will perform it twice at Al Harah theater on...

Leonid Anfimov Beryozastroymaterialy has good potential for increasing its output, Leonid Anfimov, Chairman of the State Control Committee of Belarus, told reporters on 28 February, BelTA has learned. “The enterprise is very good. It causes us no problems. There are some ongoing issues that the company's management is tackling. They are not begging for money, do not ask the state to pay for the activities to increase their capacity and boost the output. I think that the...

OAO Malorita Canning and Vegetable Dehydration Plant boosted the export by nearly 30% in 2016 from 2015, BelTA has learned from the enterprise's deputy manager Lyudmila Voznosimenko. The company ended the 2016 year in the black. The Malorita plant exported around $1.9 million worth of merchandise, exceeding last year's figure by 30%. An increase came largely thanks to baby food in doypacks, a flexible innovative packaging that is safe and shock-resistant. Besides, its caps are easy to...

Brest Oblast intends to export $2 million worth of merchandise to Pakistan in 2017, BelTA learned from Mikhail Serkov, Deputy Chairman of the Brest Oblast Executive Committee. “We have already made some groundwork for exporting $2 million worth of merchandise to Pakistan. It is a task for this year. We are talking about exporting clothes. I also hope that we will be able to export dairy products and will secure a market niche for other products, too. Export to other distant-arc...

The activities planned by the organizers aim to create the platform for dialogue between Belarusian and foreign business partners, actualize promising business ideas and projects, promote Belarusian exports and facilitate the origination of new high tech ventures in the region. It is hardly possible to overestimate the actual value of such an event for the region but its effectiveness, to a large extent, depends on such factors as business activity, eagerness to build a constructive...