BREST, 10 December (BelTA) – A session of the working group on cooperation between Belarus and Russia's Irkutsk Oblast will be held online on 17 December, representatives of the Foreign Economic Ties Department of the Economy Committee of the Brest Oblast Executive Committee told BelTA.
It will be the fifth session on record since the working group was established. It was supposed to take place in Brest but the event will be held as a videoconference due to the unfavorable epidemic situation.
The Belarusian delegation will be led by Brest Oblast Governor Anatoly Lis. The prime minister has put him in charge of coordinating Belarus' cooperation with Irkutsk Oblast. The meeting will be co-chaired by Irkutsk Oblast Governor Igor Kobzev on the Russian side.
Representatives of ministries, concerns, the largest mechanical engineering company of Belarus (MTZ, MAZ, BelAZ, Amkodor, Belkommunmash), the academies of sciences, and chambers of commerce and industry of Belarus and Eastern Siberia will take part in the videoconference session.
Participants of the session will discuss the advancement of cooperation in manufacturing, timber industry, agribusiness, in the spheres of science and culture. The fulfillment of instructions given during previous sessions of the working group will be analyzed as well as the fulfillment of the action plan on realizing the agreement between the governments of Belarus and Irkutsk Oblast on trade, economic, scientific, technical, cultural, and humanitarian cooperation in 2020-2022.
