Key event of week for Belarusian entrepreneurs

2 марта 2016

The 17th Business Assembly was held in Minsk today. The event was organized at the initiative of business alliances. It was attended by representatives of the state apparatus as well. A new platform of business of Belarus was introduced at the Assembly. As expected, it is a road map to improve the business climate in the country. The agenda includes the themes of fair competition, development of industries, creation of new jobs and competition policy.

The Minister of Economy proposed to increase representation of private business in the public and advisory boards to 50 per cent. Vladimir Zinovsky notes that the program documents for the capacity building of small and medium-sized businesses are in the current five-year plan the upd ated Directive №4 and the State Program on development of small and medium-sized businesses in the years 2016-2020.

Experts point out that it is impossible to solve many economic aspects without business. A lot of proposals were submitted at the Assembly on the formation of the country's business elite.

The Foreign Ministry of Belarus offers the business to se t up a working group for the development of exports. Businesses have already agreed on a framework agreement with the Confederation of Business on export cooperation. The Foreign Ministry plans to have finalized the program National Export of Belarus for the next five years by the end of March.