From the supply of equipment to the digitalization of the urban economy. Minsk and Bishkek strengthen cooperation

Since 2008, Minsk and Bishkek have been linked by twinning relations, and a new impetus to cooperation between the capital of Belarus and Kyrgyzstan will be given by the signing of the Roadmap for Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technical and Cultural Cooperation between the Minsk City Executive Committee and the City Hall of Bishkek for 2027-2028. This was noted by Deputy Chairman of the Minsk City Executive Committee Alexander Chernikov at a meeting with Deputy Mayor of Bishkek Muratbek Atay, BelTA reports.

Belarus and Kyrgyzstan are bound by relations of alliance and partnership based on mutual respect, trust and aspiration for joint development.

“We highly appreciate the opportunity to develop direct contacts between Minsk and Bishkek. I am sure that today’s meeting will help us to agree on areas of cooperation in a number of areas, and will also serve to create a solid foundation for its dynamic development in the long term, the Deputy Chairman of the Minsk City Executive Committee emphasized.

For the first nine months of 2026, OJSC MTZ delivered 43 units of equipment to Kyrgyzstan worth more than $ 1 million, in June of this year a contract for the supply of 82 tractors worth $ 2 million was signed. A landmark example of industrial Belarusian-Kyrgyz cooperation was the opening of a joint assembly production of oil transformers of OJSC METZ named after V.I. Kozlov and KyrgyzTransformer. The countries are developing cooperation in the pharmaceutical and high-tech sectors, as well as contacts in the consumer market.

In turn, Deputy Mayor of Bishkek Muratbek Atay stressed that the delegation of Kyrgyzstan (it includes representatives of business circles of the country), which arrived in Minsk, including to participate in the First Forum of Regions of Belarus and Kyrgyzstan, has already managed to get acquainted with the Belarusian capital.

It is a great honor for us to visit the city of Minsk, to get acquainted with its history, to see how it develops. He was pleased with the purity and high culture of the citizens. I am confident that we have every opportunity to take our cooperation to a new level, filling it with concrete initiatives and mutually beneficial projects in various fields. It is important for us that relations are also built at the level of enterprises, Muratbek Atay said. He also said that Bishkek is actively developing, there are more than 1.7 thousand different construction sites in the city, and Minsk’s competencies can be useful both in the field of housing construction, creating convenient urban spaces for residents, and in such a direction as the digitalization of the urban economy.

Today, November 9, the delegation of Kyrgyzstan plans to visit MAZ, visit the construction sites of Minsk, get acquainted with the peculiarities of urban management.

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