OREANDA-NEWS. The third Belarusian Investment Forum will be held in Frankfurt am Main on 17 November 2010. The event to be held as part the Euro Finance Week will be Belarus’ second national forum abroad.

The Belarusian delegation will be led by Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky. The delegation will include heads of ministries, departments, industrial concerns, entrepreneurial unions, major companies. All in all, the investment forum will be attended by over 150 representatives of government bodies and business community of Belarus.

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 sectors of the Belarusian economy will present the information on their investment potential through the prism of the government policy of structural reforms and liberalization.

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.

As part of the workshops participants will be presented more than 40 investment projects in various sectors of Belarusian economy worth more than USD 6.5 billion.

Additionally, the presentation materials to potential investors will be presented more than 100 investment proposals worth USD 7.5 billion.