Belarus must enter a list of 30 countries around the world, distinguished by a special attraction in the area of investment policy." This was stated by Deputy Economy Minister of the republic Anton Kudasov on May 12. "Today, the territory of Belarus has approximately 400 companies with the Lithuanian capital, while the Belarusian businessmen have established about 800 private firms in Lithuania," he said.
«In addition to attracting large and medium investments from the European Union, today the country is pleased to receive investment of small business vendors. In the end, all works to the benefit of the state economy, providing long-term priorities of the country,» «REGNUM-Belarus» quoted the Deputy Minister.
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A businessman from Lithuania, Bronislovas Lubys, who is responsible these days for holding the seventh Belarusian-Lithuanian Economic Forum, said that «in addition to traditional areas of the economy, in which entrepreneurs from Lithuania and Belarus are constantly cooperating, life has opened up new and unexpected directions.»
Thus, the secondary market of cars sales in Belarus has increased in 1.8 times in 2011,» he said.
«The same can be said about suhc form of entrepreneurship as a fuel tourism, which simply cannot be ignored today, since it is based on objective difference in fuel prices on both border sides,» he said.
According to Bronislovas Lubys, another project can be added to the existing large-scale inter-state projects, which is the two countries’ acquisition of natural gas surplus in Germany. Businessmen think over other major international projects to be implemented by the resources of private capital.
«Today, the trade turnover between Lithuania and Belarus has reached a staggering $1 billion. That’s good, but that rather big number is only an intermediate result in the Lithuanian-Belarusian good neighborly cooperation,» said the foreign businessman.
