Kaliningrad, Gomel regions to expand business contacts

KALININGRAD, June 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's Kaliningrad Region and
Belarus' Gomel Region confirmed plans to expand bilateral business
contacts.
The Kaliningrad Region's Governor Nikolai Tsukanov and the Gomel
Region's Chairman of the government Vladimir Dvornik signed a plan of
activities for 2011-2013 to implement the agreement on cooperation between
Russia's most Western region and Belarus' major territory, press service
of the Kaliningrad Region's government said on Thursday.
"The economic and industrial potential of out regions, mutual trade -
nine million dollars over past year and three million over first three
months of the current year - will continue growing, and we are capable of
raising effectiveness of our economic and humanitarian contacts, of giving
a new impetus to them," Dvornik said. "Good and services from Belarus are
very popular in the Kaliningrad Region."
"It is no doubt that supplies of meat and milk products from Gomel
will be growing, while in the construction sector Gomel has been involved
in building of ten condominium houses, and by the end of 2013 we shall
build five more," he continued.
"Belarus' business community, as it enters the Kaliningrad market,
will appreciate the preferences, which is provided to investors by the
status of the Kaliningrad Region as a special economic zone," Tsukanov
said.