MINSK, 9 March (BelTA) – The two-day working visit of the Belarusian delegation led by Industry Minister Vitaly Vovk to Karachi (the administrative center of Pakistan’s Sind Province) started on 9 March, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Embassy in Pakistan.

On the first day of the visit the Belarusian delegation took part in the opening of the fourth meeting of the joint Belarus-Pakistan commission on trade and economic cooperation. The agenda included a wide range of issues related to bilateral trade, economic, investment, sci-tech, cultural and education cooperation. Prior to the meeting Vitaly Vovk and his counterpart in the intergovernmental commission, Trade Minister of Pakistan Khurram Dastgir Khan discussed the ways to intensify bilateral trade and economic cooperation.

On the sidelines of the meeting the Belarusian Industry Minister is set to meet with the authorities of Sind Province to talk over interregional cooperation with Grodno and Gomel Oblasts of Belarus as part of the earlier signed memorandums of cooperation. The head of the Belarusian delegation is also expected to hold talks in Pakistan’s biggest industrial, logistics, mining and metallurgy companies.

The delegation consisting of representatives of different Belarusian companies is set to take part in the Belarusian-Pakistani business forum held under the aegis of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry, and also in a business forum organized by the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan.

The business part of the Belarusian delegation has comprised representatives of the Agriculture and Food Ministry, Bellegprom Concern, the National Investment and Privatization Agency, BelAZ, Minsk Automobile Plant, Minsk Tractor Works, Minsk Motor Works, Bobruiskagromash, Amkodor, Gomselmash, Naftan, Belshina, Slutsk Creamery, Polotsk Dairy, and the country’s other companies.

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