More than 100 representatives of ministries and companies of both countries took part in this forum. The main subject discussed was the potential of investing into Belarus and working preferences in the free trade zones. 

Olga Michau, Russia and the CIS countries Director, underlined during her interview the importance of the development of the petroleum industry in Belarus, in particular, with the project of the renovation of the NAFTAN Refinery in Novopolotsk, which supplies petroleum products not only in Belarus, but also in the European Union countries.