Belarussian-Slovene Business Conference took place yesterday in the premises of the Belarussian Chamber of Commerce in Minsk. The Conference was attended by 21 Slovene and 39 Belarussian companies and institutions, among others Albin Promotion, ACS – Automotive Cluster of Slovenia, Finance Newspaper, Duol, Gonzaga Pro, Slovenian Chamber of Commerce, Helios Group, Institute of Tourism and Sports Radenci, Iskratel, Klima Petek, Kovinatrade, POP TV, Predilnica Litija (a spinning mill), Riko and Stubelj. The Conference was also attended by VZMD President Kristjan Verbič, M.Sc., who arrived at Minsk together with the representatives of the Slovene business diplomacy directly from Moscow, and he presented at the Slovene-Russian Investment Conference the possibilities and opportunities in the framework of VZMD international business-investment programmes: Invest to Slovenia (investo.si) and International Investors` Network (invest-to.net), along with PREMIERING OF THE VIDEO prepared by investo.tv for these occasions (click on the image on the left to play the video). 

In the framework of yesterday's Conference the assembled audience was initially addressed by: Belarussian Deputy Foreign Minister Elena Kupchina, General Director of the Directorate for Economic Diplomacy of the Republic of Slovenia Mr Stanislav Raščan, PhD, and Deputy Chairman of the Belarussian Chamber of Commerce Mr Vladimir Ulakhovich. A representative of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce (GZS) Aleš Cantarutti and a representative of Belarussian National Agency for Investments and Privatisation Tatiana Bychkouskaya, presented to the assembled audience Slovene and Belarussian business environment, whereas a representative of the State Tourism Organisation»Centrekurort«Ksenia Pyzh presented their project 2014 Ice Hockey World Championship in Belarus.

The presentations were followed by B2B business meetings where a great interest was expressed in cooperation and the possibilities provided by the two VZMD business-investment programmes. Therefore Mr Verbič, M.Sc., had most meetings of all the 15 Slovene representatives – 8 meetings had been planned initially, however, due to the additional interest Mr Verbič held 11 meetings with the Belarussian participants at the Conference. The conversations were followed by meetings with the representatives of Belarussian institutions in the framework of mixed committee, and a dinner afterwards.

The Conference in Minsk was the last – the 18th carried out abroad this year (VIDEO CLIP) - presentation of VZMD international business-investment programmes before the start of a new season next year. After this year's successful presentations in Astana, Almaty, Baku, Brussels, Bucharest, Cape Town, Vienna, Kiev, Ljubljana, Madrid, Minsk, Moscow, New Delhi, Tokyo, Toronto and Zagreb, VZMD kindly invites those wishing to secure their business interest by taking part in our activitiesto contact the VZMD investo.si programme coordinator by phone 031 770 771, or e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. All those interested in our activities can also contact our coordinator to inform him about the

preferred date for a meeting with us and to get more information about our programmes, the anticipated activities and possible opportunities in 2014.