Belarus and Pakistan planning to set up joint ventures in the field of mechanical engineering, petrochemistry and wood processing

7 августа 2015

These and other options for cooperation were discussed at the session of the Belarusian-Pakistani intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation.

Over the past eight years, the volume of trade between our countries ranged from 50 to 120 million dollars a year. Meanwhile, the expansion of bilateral economic cooperation has considerable prospects.

Alexey Bogdanov, Director General of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Belarus: "Today we have a very good dynamics of supply of our products to Pakistan. As an example, I can cite a figure of $435 million, we supply products for six months. Basically it is baby food. And it's two and a half times more than in 2014. Also, a contract for $ 10 million for the supply of milk powder to Pakistan is expected."

The delegation of Pakistan includes ministers and businessmen and even the Prime Minister of Pakistan. He will hold a number of official meetings and will visit the engineering plant.