BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

11/07/2006

India, Belarus to discuss cooperation in fields of economy, trade

Indian Minister of State for Industry, Ashwani Kumar left for Minsk, the capital of Belarus, Monday evening for participating in the Indo-Belarusian Inter-Governmental Joint Commission meeting on cooperation in the fields of economy, trade, industry, science and technologies and culture.

Kumar is leading a high-level delegation comprising of joint secretaries of Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Fertilizers and Coal.

The minister would have wide ranging consultations with the host country's ministers of industry and foreign affairs and will call on the prime minister of Belarus, a PIB release said here on Tuesday.

The two sides are likely to discuss possibilities of cooperation in banking, road construction and a joint venture plant for the manufacture of tractors in Belarus.

Cooperation between Export Credit and Guarantee Corporation and its counterpart 'BELEXIMGARANT' will also be explored.

India is an importer of potash from Belarus while there is substantial opportunity for exports from India to Belarus including Bharat Heavy Electric Limited (BHEL)'s turbines for its power sector.

It may be recalled that Belarus has supported the Indian position on the restructuring of the United Nations Security Council and had also condemned terrorist attacks on Parliament and in Kashmir.

Source:

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0607114210191129.htm

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