The international real estate show for professionals MIPIM, which is underway in Cannes, France on 10-13 March, is a unique and effective platform to present the investment opportunities of the Belarusian capital Minsk, Belarus' Ambassador to France Pavel Latushko said at the opening of the Belarusian stand prepared by IOOO Zomex Investment, a part of the group of companies Dana Holdings.
“Belarus is interested not only in raising foreign investment. The country has done a lot for foreign investors to feel comfortable in Belarus,” Pavel Latushko stressed. In the international ratings on the ease of doing business (first of all, in Doing Business 2015) Belarus is ahead of its main economic partners – Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine. The country's strategic geographical position in Europe is also of great importance for investors. “It allows Belarus to act as a kind of bridge between the huge market of the European Union with the 450 million population and the 170-million-strong market of the Eurasian Economic Union,” the Belarusian Ambassador noted.
The country has additional instruments to attract foreign investors: individual investment agreements concluded with the country's government, preferences for investment in small towns, six free economic zones, the Great Stone Industrial Park, and the Hi-Tech Park. “You can offer a project and rest assured it will receive a positive response from the authorities of the city and the country. For its part, the Belarusian embassy will provide all possible assistance in supporting investment projects in Minsk and Belarus,” Pavel Latushko said.
It is important that partaking in MIPIM is IOOO Zomex Investment, a part of the group of companies of Dana Holdings and one of the biggest investors in real estate in Belarus, the diplomat stressed. “The successful operation of IOOO Zomex Investment on the Belarusian market is a good example for potential foreign partners interested in cooperation with Belarus,” he said and expressed gratitude to the company for its fruitful work in Belarus and for its high-level presentation of the Belarusian capital at MIPIM 2015.
Dana Holdings (Switzerland) is an international investment and civil engineering group of companies that has been operating in Belarus since 2006. In Belarus Dana Holdings is represented primarily by three main divisions: IOOO Dana Astra, IOOO Zomex Investment, and SOOO Belinte-Roba. It is one of the country's largest real estate developers. The group of companies is busy building multifunctional complexes in the city of Minsk such as Minsk Lighthouse (Minsk Mayak), Minsk Mir, Vivaldi, Chaikovsky, Rakhmaninov and others.
Source:BelTA