Economy

GOMEL, 26 March (BelTA) ? Teams from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Estonia and Italy will take part in the international junior basketball tournament for boys born after 2000. The tournament will be held in Gomel on 30 March-2 April, BelTA learnt from Chief Advisor to the Gomel Oblast Governor Marina Filonova. An Italian team will take part in the tournament for the first time. The country will be represented by young hopefuls from the city of Lucca (Tuscany region).

GOMEL, 27 March (BelTA) ? Gomel Oblast and a number of regions of Kazakhstan may sign cooperation agreements in the near future, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Belarus Ergali Bulegenov told BelTA as he met with Chairman of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Vladimir Dvornik. The officials met to discuss the efforts to build up regional ties as part of the Ambassador?s visit to Gomel Oblast on 26-27 March.

GOMEL, 22 March (BelTA) ? The joint venture created two years ago by Belarusian OAO Seismotekhnika and Italian Drillmec Company will offer its merchandise on foreign markets, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian state industrial group Belorusneft. This year the joint venture will ship two stationary drilling rigs Drillmec 1500 with the lifting capacity of 345 tonnes each to Russian oil companies.

GOMEL, 13 March (BelTA) ? An agreement to launch joint production of milking equipment in Omsk Oblast was signed during the visit of the Omsk Oblast delegation to Gomel Oblast on 13 March, BelTA has learnt.

The equipment will be assembled at Omsk Experimental Plant affiliated with the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The assembly sets will be supplied by Gomelagrokomplekt.

They could substantially expand the spectrum of our cooperation.