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 The economies of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan should deal with the global crisis using joint efforts, said Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky during a visit to Belarusian Autoworks in Zhodino on January 5. At present, the complementarity of the Belarusian and Russian economies is 60%-90% in certain kinds of cooperation. “Russia’s GAZ Group, KAMAZ and Grodno-based Belkard that supplies parts to Russia have stopped their production,” the Premier said.
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BELARUS SETS UP COUNCIL OF EXPERTS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY
In line with Belarus Council of Ministers’ resolution No 1639, the interdepartmental council of experts for energy-efficient technologies, equipment and materials has been set up in Belarus.
The council is led by Leonid Shenets, the Deputy Chairman of the Belarus State Standardization Committee, director of the energy efficiency department. The council also includes representatives of the ministries of energy, municipal housing economy, architecture and construction, economy, Belarus National Academy of Sciences, State Committee for Science and Technology, companies and universities.
The mission of the interdepartmental council is to improve the efficiency of energy and fuel utilization which stipulated in Directive No 3 on economy and thrift. The council will prepare the proposals regarding energy-efficient technologies, equipment and materials and coordinate the cooperation between national state bodies, executive committees in energy efficiency.
The new organization will focus on the development of the system of record keeping and regulation of all kinds of energy resources, promotion of local, alternative and renewable energy, introduction of the equipment running on waste energy, creation of high energy efficiency demo sites. The council will prepare the proposals to improve the legislation in energy saving, develop documents (concepts, sci-tech and other programmes) to settle the basic problems of the rational use of fuel and energy. The council will take organizational and other measures to reduce energy capacity of products, improve their quality and competitiveness.
The council of experts will function on a permanent basis. Its decisions should be taken into consideration by the national administration bodies, oblast executive committees, Minsk City Coucnil, other organizations.
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 The Government of Belarus issued Resolution No 2020 to introduce a new minimum wage.
In line with the resolution, the monthly minimum wage will amount to Br229,000, the hourly minimum wage – to Br1,360.
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 Only export-oriented and competitive companies will be supported by the state, said Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky at a session of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers to discuss the measures to maintain the stability of the country’s key and other enterprises on December 23.
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 Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky thinks it necessary to accelerate the transition to the regional currency in the payments between economic entities of Belarus and Russia. He voiced this opinion at the meeting with Chairman of the Russia’s State Corporation Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank) Vladimir Dmitriev on December 20.
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 Belarus welcomes any investors who have concrete plans concerning the period of projects implementation and projects financing, Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Viktor Burya told.
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 Belarus is interested in liberalizing mutual trade with the European Union, Vice-Premier of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov said as he met with the head of the EC Delegation in Ukraine and Belarus, Mr Jose Manuel Pinto Teixeira, in Minsk on December 18.
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 By the end of 2008 the Government of Belarus will pass
new legal instruments to facilitate administrative procedures and liberalise the economy, Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky said on December 17
during the Belarus Government Quality Achievements Award 2008 ceremony.
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 Fishman Group is ready to put $500 million in the
construction of a set of facilities in the Belarusian High-Tech Park, company’s co-owner Eliezer Fishman told reporters after his meeting with Prime
Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky on December 17.
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 Some Br590 billion was saved in 2008 due to streamlined financing of innovation projects, Vladimir Matiushkov, Chairman of the State Science and Technology Committee of Belarus, said at a session of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers chaired by Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky on December 16.
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