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Belarus, China may establish joint trade company

Belarus and China may establish a joint trade company, Deputy Prime Minister Anatol Tozik said at a meeting with Zhang Wei, vice chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, in Beijing on Wednesday.

He said that an agreement had been reached to establish such a company. “Very many goods go from one country to the other through third countries. And we have agreed that we will create a company where Chinese and Belarusian people will work,” the government’s news agency BelTA quoted him as saying.

“Chinese people know better what can be exported from Belarus to China, while Belarusians know better what can be exported from China to Belarus, and it will be bought, particularly as far as it concerns goods of general consumption,” Mr. Tozik said.

The deputy prime minister suggested that Belarus and China should not plan too many projects simultaneously but should rather identify two or three priority projects that would be implemented in full.

A program to develop comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries in the next decade should be drawn up before the end of this year, according to Mr. Tozik. “We are de facto beginning integration in the full sense of the word in all spheres of our relations,” he said. //BelaPAN