Vitebsk will host an international investment forum on 19-20 March, which will be the first in a series of similar events in Belarus in 2015, the Vitebsk region Marketing Center reported.Similar events will be organized in Grodno and Gomel. Deputy Chairman of the Economy Committee of the Vitebsk region Executive Committee Konstantin Chernyi noted that this year’s edition of the forum will be different from the previous ones.
          Given the current difficult economic situation the importance of the forum increases. The upcoming forum will be more pragmatic and goal-oriented. This time many investors will come not just to familiarize themselves with the situation in Belarus, but to hear specific proposals and establish cooperation. The main topics of the forum will include energy conservation and agricultural complex development prospects. Partaking in the forum will be representatives of 26 countries such as Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Germany, the Czech Republic, and others.
       The program of the forum features conferences, roundtables, seminars, presentations, exhibitions, fairs, and tastings of products manufactured in Vitebsk region.