16 April 2009
Mogilev, Sokolinaya Gora Municipal Council of Moscow sign cooperation programme for 2009
MOGILEV, April 16 (BelTA) – Mogilev and the Sokolinaya Gora Municipal Council of the Eastern Administrative District of Moscow signed the cooperation programme for 2009 in Mogilev on April 16. According to the Chairman of the Mogilev Town Executive Committee, the cooperation between Mogilev and Moscow has been actively developing since 2001 when the two sides signed the agreement on trade, economic, sci-tech and cultural cooperation. Main Mogilev’s exports to the Moscow region are lifts (in 2006-2008, 310 Mogilev-produced lifts were supplied to Moscow), electric motors, foodstuffs and other goods. Mogilev and the Sokolinaya Gora region intend to develop mutually beneficial cooperation including the holding of contact-cooperation exchanges, meetings of heads of companies and organizations, organization of exhibitions and fairs, cultural and sports events. In turn, Head of the Sokolinaya Gora Municipal Council Alexander Aksionov noted that despite the global financial crisis, the relations between Russian and Belarusian people will be strengthened. A representative Russian delegation led by Nikolai Evtikhiev, Prefect of the Eastern Administrative District of Moscow, has arrived in Mogilev to develop the mutually beneficial cooperation. Alexander Aksionov presented the students of schools of Mogilev, Dribin and Belynichi who participated in the Slavonic Brotherhood Festival with diplomas. According to the foreign, economic, investments and business development department of the Mogilev Town Executive Committee, in 2008, the trade between Mogilev and Moscow made up $195 million, up 4.4% as against 2007. Mogilev companies exported goods at the amount of $135 million, imported - $59 million.БЕЛТА