There are plans to build over 50 processing plants in Belarus within three years, Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky said at the opening of a juice factory in Bobruisk on April 28. “The country’s economy is stable on the way of innovative development. A corresponding programme provides for building over 20 tinned food enterprises,” said the Premier. Sergei Sidorsky said, imported juices account for about 60% of Belarus’ consumption.

Belarus is interested in developing trade and economic cooperation with St. Petersburg, Andrei Kobyakov, the Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus, told reporters after a session of the working group of the Business Cooperation Council of the Republic of Belarus and St. Petersburg on May 13.

The amount of Belarusian gold and foreign currency reserves are close to international standards, Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov said at the joint session of the Council of Republic and the House of Representatives of the National Assembly on April 25.

The official website of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus was recognized best in the nomination “State administration bodies” at TIBO 2008 exhibition.

Over the two years Belarus and the Sverdlovsk oblast of the Russian Federation can boost the trade to $1 billion, Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky noted after his meeting with Governor of the Sverdlovsk oblast Eduard Rossel.

Enterprises of Belarus’ processing industry will be fully refitted within the next 2-3 years, Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky told media on April 23.

Russia remains the key partner for Belarus in trade and economic cooperation, First Vice Premier of Belarus Vladimir Semashko said at a Belarusian-Russian business forum in Minsk on April 23.

The oil refineries of the Belneftekhim concern are fully provided with feed stock, First Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Vladimir Semashko said at a session of the Council of Ministers on April 22.

The development of information and telecommunication technologies is a priority of the social and economic development of Belarus, Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky said when he met with Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union Hamadoun Toure on April 21.

Belarus and the Nizhniy Novgorod oblast reached a higher level in the mutually beneficial trade and economic cooperation, Andrei Kobyakov, the Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus, stated at the fourth session of the Business Cooperation Council of Belarus and the Nizhniy Novgorod oblast in Mogilev on April 21.