The issues of cooperation between Moscow and Minsk entrepreneurs were discussed at the meeting.
According to the Head of the Moscow delegation, the Minister of the Moscow City Government and Executive Officer of the Department for External Economic and International Relations of Moscow, MR. Sergey Cheremin, Belarusian products account for about 20% of the Russian capital's food import, and Belarusian product fairs are regularly held in various districts of the Russian capital.
The capital's municipal economy uses Belarusian-made automobiles and modern eco-friendly electric transport. Today we are Discussed were the possibilities of new deliveries and the organization of joint production.
Mr. Sergey Cheremin shared with the the meeting’s participants the results of trade and economic cooperation between Moscow and the Republic of Belarus in 2020-2021, the interim results of the Plan of Moscow and the Republic of Belarus to develop trade and economic, scientific, technical, humanitarian, cultural and social cooperation in 2020-2022, and the plan of programmed activities of the city of Moscow and the Republic of Belarus for 2020-2022. According to him, for Russia ,i t is important to continue working together in all the pertinent and applicable spheres, especially where the interaction with regions is concerned.
Mr.Vladimir Kukharev, the Chairman of the Minsk City Executive Committee, underscored the importance of strengthening economic ties between the Russian and Belarusian capitals, noted significant prospects of cooperation in industrial, construction, humanitarian and other areas of concern, and thanked the Moscow delegation for their readiness to actively and effectively address the issues raised by the Working Group. "It is necessary to build on the results obtained, not to stop at what has been achieved," he concluded.
We actively cooperate with all the regions of Belarus and, first of all, with the Minsk branch of Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry; we hold online conferences on different topical issues - logistics, high technologies, joint promotion of our companies to the markets of third countries,” - outlined the width of cooperation the Vice-President of the MCCI, Mr. Suren Vardanyan. We use our online platform, such as the “ Business Market”, to represent Belarus on the Russian marketplace in all the regions of our country". According to the speaker, Russia and Belarus often exchange delegations, organize major forums, hold b2b-meetings and negotiations of companies, assisting the latter in the Moscow and Minsk markets.
" The Moscow and Minsk Chambers of Commerce work actively and do not have any problems in constructive, substantive and, most importantly, productive interaction. This work will continue," assured the meeting’s participants Mr. Vardanyan. Allowing for the fact that we speak the same language and the fact that businesses of the two capitals have close ties, the services of our Chambers of Commerce and Industry are very much in demand," said the General Director of the the Minsk branch of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Sergey Nabeshko. - We perform a great deal of constructive and vital work.” The Speaker especially noted the active participation of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry of both countries in the state procurement issues. "I want to thank my colleagues for the fact that today, thanks to our joint efforts, a number of Belarusian industrial companies are included in the register, which affords participation in public and municipal attainment of contracts.
As of today there are 4,388 commodity items - trucks and buses, furniture production, products of wood processing, by - products of forestry, light industry,” - he noted. According to him, this year, under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce, a Business Council was formed: "an extremely popular body, which examines current issues, complex situations that can be jointly analyzed, develop constructive suggestions on governmental level in order to make necessary decisions. At the end of his speech, Mr. Nabeshko thanked colleagues from the MCCI, interested in pursuing joint business.
Afterwards, the participants of the meeting discussed in detail the aspects of cooperation between Moscow and Minsk regarding various sectors of economy.