National infrastructure plan in the pipeline in Belarus

        A national infrastructure plan will be developed in Belarus to include the objects that require private capital injections. The information was released by Leo McKenna, Co-Chair of the United Nations’ Executive Board on PPP, the UK government’s appointed representative to the European Investment Bank’s European PPP Expertise Centre (EPEC), a director of the global board of the International Project Finance Association (IPFA), at the first session of the Interagency Infrastructure Coordination Council, BelTA reports. Leo McKenna said that over the last few years a number of positive changes in the development of the public private partnership mechanism in Belarus have happened. Now the Belarus government works in tight cooperation with partners from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe to develop the national infrastructure plan that will list the main infrastructure objects that require private capital injections. The Belarusian center for public private partnership led by Dmitry Berezovsky will coordinate the development of the national infrastructure plan.