10th Forum of Regions of Belarus and Russia

About 3 thousand participants and 30 governors at one site. Bashkortostan is hosting the 10th Forum of Regions of Belarus and Russia this week. Ufa will become a place of union meetings and negotiations. It is the regions that make a significant contribution to union trade and cooperation, the expansion of humanitarian contacts, and the strengthening of relations between Minsk and Moscow. Tomorrow the Forum will begin work in sections: the participants will discuss in detail the prospects for cooperation between regions in general and enterprises in particular. And today a large industrial exhibition of equipment starts, where the brands of mechanical engineering of Belarus and Russia will be presented. As part of the business program, the regions plan to sign a number of documents. The partners expect to endorse hundreds of cooperation agreements and contracts. According to preliminary estimates, the amounts will exceed last year's figures.