Strengthening economic partnership, searching for new contacts and benefits for business. A representative office of Bashkortostan's Congress Bureau has opened in Minsk. The organization's activities will be aimed at promoting investments for the implementation of joint projects of Bashkortostan and Belarus in industry, construction, agro-industrial complex and other areas. The platform will also give impetus to the development of mutually beneficial relations for the benefit of the economies of the two countries. Bashkortostan is one of the main trade partners of Belarus in Russia.