The programme will run until 2027. They plan to finalise it in a few months and sign it at the Forum of Regions of Belarus and Russia in June in Nizhny Novgorod. The parties agreed on this today in Novosibirsk at the Business Cooperation Council, which was chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Karankevich and Governor Andrei Travin. A number of contracts were signed following the visit of the Belarusian government delegation to this Russian region. New areas for cooperation are machine-tool construction, microelectronics and petrochemicals.