OREANDA-NEWS  On 06 March was announced, that Belarus needs to respond swiftly to the changes in the world market trends. Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky said about it at a meeting of the Foreign Ministry. The head of Government urged to take up all possible market niches, preserve the existing markets and penetrate into new markets including into those that are becoming vacant because of the global financial crisis. He also drew attention to the importance of joint assembling as one of the most advanced forms of production cooperation.

Sergei Sidorsky also noted that in overcoming the global crisis Belarus and its key international partners place the main emphasis on providing equal access to the market. “For that we need to use all instruments we have available within the framework of the Belarus-Russia Union State, the EurAsEC and the CIS,” he stressed.

The Prime Minister of Belarus urged exporting companies to use an aggressive marketing policy and flexible tools in order to preserve and develop the existing markets and to penetrate into new ones.

According to Sergei Sidorsky, it is also necessary to revise the conceptual approach and content of national and industrial exhibitions of Belarus abroad. The main criterion to being showcased at expositions should be sales potential of a product or its strength to attract foreign innovative technologies and investments in the development of the production in Belarus.

The instruction was given to monitor the content of anti-crisis programmes implemented by other governments in order to efficiently cooperate with them in foreign economic policy.