OREANDA-NEWS. December 31, 2009. Trade and Investments Promotion Department of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Tashkent organized a press briefing to sum up results of cooperation between the two countries in 2009 and set plans for the coming 2010.

Representatives of the Polish embassy told briefly about the influence of the global financial crisis on their country, noting that Poland copes successfully with the crisis challenges.

Stimulation of consumer demand and investments, strengthening of the system of financing small and medium enterprises, support of stable functioning of the banking and financial system, effective utilization of EU funds, innovative orientation and formation of more flexible labor market are among the priorities of the Plan of Stabilization and Development (adopted in November 2008) and the Anti-Crisis Law (adopted in August 2009) pursued by the government of Poland.

It is expected that, unlike overwhelming majority of European countries, this year the economy of Poland will avoid recession and provide positive growth of the gross domestic product at the level of 1.1-1.2%. The country's GDP rose by 1.7% in the third quarter of 2009 (in the second quarter growth was at 1.1%), according to the Polish statistics.

The positive result was influenced by the growth of net export and private consumption (2.2%), as well as investments. Taking into account results of the current year, a 12% growth of exports is forecasted in 2010 and imports will increase by 14%.

According to world financial institutions, largest banks and leading independent rating agencies, the Polish economy has all preconditions to continue progressive development with growth by 3% in 2010, with increase of the inflow of capital, industrial output and decrease of unemployment.

Allocation of a special flexible credit line worth USD 20.58 billion by the International Monetary fund to Poland became one of the real acknowledgements of this process. FCLs are granted only to the countries with dynamically proportional development, healthy financeable economy and strong economic policy.