MINSK, 17 August (BelTA) – Venezuela is interested in import of Belarusian technologies and know-how, Ramon Carrizales, the Deputy Prime Minister of Venezuela, told a plenary session of the joint Belarusian-Venezuelan high level commission in Minsk on 17 August.

“In trade and economic relations with Belarus we do not want to be just a buyer of goods,” Ramon Carrizales noted. Venezuela would like to import your technologies, he said.

MINSK, 18 August (BelTA) – In January-June 2009, the GDP energy intensity in Belarus reduced by 4.9% as against the projections of 8%, Leonid Shenets, deputy chairman of the State Standardization Committee of Belarus – director of the energy efficiency department, told reporters on 18 August.

 In H1 2009, the total energy consumption reduced by 5% as against the same period of 2008 to reach 692.