Belarusian investment forum takes place in London. Earlier, Belarus and the United Kingdom agreed to establish a business cooperation council. This agreement on this was reached in the course of the meetings of the Belarusian delegation with UK politicians and businessmen, the press service of the Belarus Foreign Ministry reports. The Belarusian delegation members met with Alexander Justham, CEO of London Stock Exchange, members of the British Parliament and representatives of the investment, banking and manufacturing companies of the UK. The parties discussed practical issues of expanding mutually beneficial investment, trade and economic cooperation between the countries, agreed on the establishment of the Belarusian-British business cooperation council.

At the same time, an Austrian-Belarusian-Russian economic forum takes place in Vienna. The forum has been organized by the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber with assistance of the chambers of commerce and industry of Belarus and Russia as well as the embassies of Belarus and Russia in Austria.