This week, the first batch of meat in the amount of 18 tons will arrive in Tashkent. Pakistan began supplying meat to Uzbekistan. It was noted that the first batch of meat in the amount of 18 tons will arrive in Tashkent this week. Another 50 containers of meat (900 tons in total) are expected … Read more
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has expanded the list of critical import goods, namely with the goods required for industrial manufacturing and construction. The relevant statement was made by the Ukrainian Economy Ministry, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “Last time the list of critical import goods was updated and approved at a meeting of the … Read more
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Regarding the concerns of the population regarding the supply of salt, the Ministry of Economy specified that the Republic of Moldova has sufficient stocks. More than a thousand tonnes of food salt (iodine and non-iodine) were imported in both January and February. Salt importers confirmed that there is no problem in ensuring Moldova’s domestic demand … Read more
Kazakhstan and Slovakia agreed to cooperate in the field of water management, automotive industry, waste recycling, green technology, reported the press service of the Kazakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This was announced during the ninth meeting of the Kazakh-Slovak intergovernmental commission on economic and scientific and technical cooperation, which was held on March 11 in … Read more
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According to the Kazakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kazakhstan and Slovakia decided to increase cooperation in water management, automotive industry, waste recycling and green technology. The ninth meeting of the Kazakh- Slovak intergovernmental commission on economic and scientific and technical cooperation was held on the 11th of March in Bratislava.
Kazakh students are expected to be trained at Slovak universities. The event was attended by Karol Galek, the second State Secretary of the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic, Slovak investors. Kazakh delegation was represented by Talgat Momyshev, the Vice-Minister of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources of Kazakhstan.
The proposition of the Kazakh officials was to strengthen cooperation in management and monitoring of forestry, environmental control, construction and production of building materials, and to launch the transit container traffic.
During the event Kazakh delegation presented new measures and government policy in the field of investment support, opportunities of special economic and industrial zones, as well as the country’s potential in the field of mechanical engineering and metallurgy.
According to the Slovak authorities, a favorable investment climate was created by the fact that Kazakhstan opened the door for foreign investment and that the government promised to fulfill all obligations to investors.
The agenda of the meeting contained cooperation in all sectors of industry, including trade, energy, aviation, innovations and modern technologies.
After the meeting, the memorandum of understanding was signed by Talgat Mukhanov, the head of department of the Investment Committee and Osim Mamatkulov, who represented the Slovak company Heneken. The majority of secondary aluminum and zinc alloys in Slovakia is produced by Heneken, the largest company of the country, specializing in metallurgy, logistics, machinery, building materials and energy. An aluminum smelter, a cable factory and a zinc alloys factory are also included in the group.
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The visit of Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Reza Fatemi-Amin to Armenia is hailed as constructive. According to the Embassy of Iran in Armenia, joint ventures will be launched by Teheran and Yerevan.
Renza Fatemi said that Iran would import raw materials or parts, which were the basis of pharmaceutical products and home appliances to Armenia. Armenia will make the joint products and export them to other county.
Expanding bilateral trade via joint investments was the aim of the visit. As Reza Fatemi-Amin said in Yerevan, the focus of the visit was deepening ties between Iran and Armenia via joint ventures.
He also said that the meeting with Armenian officials was helpful and facilitating bilateral trade between the two neighbors. The Iranian minister of Industry, Trade and Mine said that this two-day visit had helped to pave the way for the joint activities of Iranian and Armenian companies in trade transit, marketing and sales activities.
The Iranian delegation was accompanied by dozens of Iranian private companies’ CEOs during the visit to Armenia.
Fatemi-Amin said that launching of infrastructure projects in Armenia had been agreed.
According to the Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade, preliminary agreements on a range of issues such as building dams and roads in Armenia by Iranian companies were made during the meetings with Armenian Minister of Economy Vahan Kerobyan and Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Gnel Sanosyan and the Armenia deputy PM. He also added that they had agreed on building a transit road to complete the infrastructure projects in Armenia in the long run. He noted that Iranian companies would take part in relevant tenders.
Readiness of Tran to cooperate with Armenia in the construction of a new transport route (Kajaran – Sisian road) was announced by the Embassy. This road comes as part of Iran’s bid to launch the North – South Transport Corridor and is part of Iran – Armenia- Georgia Transportation Corridor. A 7200 km long multi-mode network of ship, rail and road routes for moving freight between Iran, India, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Russia, Armenia, Central Asia and Europe is called the International North-South Transport Corridor. Its aim is to boost trade connections between regional and ultra-regional states.
An important part of the joint effort to boost bilateral trade was the agreement between Iranian and Armenian officials on cutting transit tariffs.
Reza Fatemi-Amin said that they had had two short-term and long-term agreements with Armenia concerning transit of goods.
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