Delegation of the Novgorod region of the Russian Federation to visit the Republic of Belarus

The delegation of the Novgorod Region of the Russian Federation headed by Sergey Mitin, the Governor of the Novgorod region, will pay a visit to the Republic of Belarus on October 10-11.

The delegation will have meetings in the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus where it is planned to discuss the issues of cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and the Novgorod region, including those in the sphere of forestry, agricultural, industrial, peat extraction, construction areas.

The program also includes visits to a number of Belarusian enterprises: MUE “The City Milk Processing Factory №1”, OJSC “Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange”, MUE “Minsk Vegetable Factory” and OJSC “Peat briquette factory Usiazh”.

Note: In January-August 2011 the trade turnover between the Republic of Belarus and the Novgorod region amounted to US$ 99.3 million, a 50.0 percent increase compared to January-August 2010. Belarusian exports amounted to US$ 57.1 million (2-fold growth), imports – US$ 42.2 million (increase by 10.2 percent). The balance of trade showed a US$ 14.9 million surplus.

The basis of Belarusian export to the Novgorod Region in January-August 2011 was represented by copper waste and scrap, motor-cars, live pigs, cheese and cottage cheese, fresh or chilled beef, tanks made of ferrous metals, pork, plastic containers.

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