OREANDA-NEWS. November 16, 2010.  Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky went on a working visit to Germany to attend the Belarusian Investment Forum which will be held in Frankfurt am Main on November 17.

In Frankfurt am Main Belarus will present more than 160 investment projects worth more than USD 14 billion and plans to sign 15 investment contracts and letters of intent to the tune of USD 3.5 billion worth of capital investment.

The forum will feature two plenary sessions: Why is it Profitable to Invest in the Republic of Belarus? and How to Invest in the Republic of Belarus ? and four simultaneous sections.

The sections on various industries of the Belarusian economy will present the information about their investment potential through the prism of structural reforms and liberalization policy.

Thus, the workshop, Banking and Investment Opportunities of the Financial Market, will highlight the investment attractiveness of the banking and financial sector of Belarus on the basis of foreign experience in the sector.

The workshop, New Opportunities for Infrastructural Development within the Customs Union of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan (transportation, logistics, construction, tourism), will present construction projects for transport and logistics centers in all Belarusian oblasts, including at the airports of Vitebsk, Grodno, the Minsk national airport, an upgrade project of the Gomelsteklo Company and the organization of the industrial processing of sheet polishing glass for the construction sector, a construction project of a hippodrome and the associated infrastructure at the Ratomka national equestrian sports and horse breeding center.

Promising investment areas in the manufacturing industry and agriculture as well as privatization of Belarusian companies will be discussed at the third workshop to be conducted by the State Property Committee, the Industry Ministry and subordinate concerns.

The objective of the fourth workshop, Innovation for Energy Efficiency and Environmental Protection. Renewable Energy Resources, will be to demonstrate investment projects in energy, energy conservation and ecology aimed at enhancing energy efficiency, addressing environmental problems.