Belarus-Moldova business partnership is reaching a new level, Belarus' Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov said when speaking at the Moldovan-Belarusian Business Forum which opened in Chisinau on 3 October. “The arrival of a large business delegation of our country to Moldova is a sign of our business partnership reaching a new level,” Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov said. He noted that the relations between Belarus and Moldova have been traditionally developing in a spirit of mutual cooperation. In recent years the countries have intensified the dialogue at the highest level. It is supported by the constructive intergovernmental dialogue. Belarus and Moldova have signed over 60 treaties in various fields. Business entities operate in the conditions of free trade without exceptions and restrictions. Belarus is consistently among the top ten trading and economic partners of Moldova and annually consumes about 25% of the Moldovan export of wine and 10% of that of fruits and vegetables. In turn, Belarusian goods are widely represented in Moldova: these are tractors, trolleybuses, petrochemicals, medicine, food and many more. “We have achieved good practical results in the development of industrial cooperation. We have a wide portfolio of projects to assemble Belarusian trolleybuses and garden/vineyard tractors in Moldova. In 2015 we launched another project to assemble small and medium-sized tractors in Gagauzia,” Andrei Kobyakov said. “This year we started assembling Belkommunmash wireless trolleybuses in Chisinau and bottling Cricova sparkling wines in Minsk. We hope that this work will be continued, especially since the industrial cooperation is promoted by the governments of the two countries,” he noted. This year, despite the difficult situation in the region and the world, bilateral trade, according to Andrei Kobyakov, inspires some optimism. Thus, in January-July 2016 the bilateral trade went up by almost 10% as against the same period a year earlier and amounted to nearly $150 million. “We want to build on this trend,” the Prime Minister said. “We hope that the business communities will continue to find new avenues of interaction in order to take advantage of mutually beneficial trade regime in the Eurasian Economic Union and Moldova's trade preferences with the European Union. The Government of Belarus is open to your suggestions and is ready to support promising endeavors,” Andrei Kobyakov emphasized. He wished the participants of the business forum active and fruitful work, establishing new business ties and long-term mutually beneficial cooperation. “The Government of Belarus will provide the necessary support and create an enabling environment for this,” Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov assured.