00:00It's already history that Belarus participates in the international expositions like Expo
00:27as a separate pavilion because we would like to bring more information about the country,
00:33about our achievements, about people of Belarus and the beauty of our country.
00:40In Expo 2020 it was a special decision because we have special relations with the United
00:47Arab Emirates.
00:49It is a history of long-standing official contacts between the two countries, trade
00:54cooperation, investment projects happening in Belarus with the participation of the companies
01:00and investors from the United Arab Emirates.
01:03For me personally it's another occasion because 20 years ago I was among the team who started
01:10the first Belarusian Embassy here in the United Arab Emirates and now I am the Commissioner-General.
01:15I have the additional pleasure to open our national pavilion to show new possibilities
01:21of our country and possibly discuss new areas of cooperation between our countries.
01:28As I mentioned, we have many achievements in Belarus and in parallel we have a very
01:34beautiful country with beautiful nature, so we decided to thematically call our pavilion
01:40the Forest of Future Technologies.
01:43At the moment everyone who is coming to Belarus as a tourist can enjoy the nature.
01:49At the same time, we are a very developed industrial country, a very developed agricultural
01:55country.
01:56Many people in the world know Belarus as a high-tech park in the center of Europe.
02:03That is why we decided to show the fusion of nature and future technologies.
02:12If you follow the exposition, you will see that we are trying to present our industries,
02:18our scientific and research potential and at the same time show that the country has
02:27a human spirit which provides such developments in industry, agriculture, science and technology.
02:35We would like people who are visiting Belarus to see that we are friends and we have a lot
02:40of opportunities to do business and to do cooperation.
02:44We have big expectations.
03:12Just for your knowledge, next year our two countries will mark 13 years anniversary of
03:19establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.
03:23It is quite a round figure and the United Arab Emirates were among the first to recognize
03:33the young republic of the world 30 years ago.
03:37We expect to promote our country's highly developed science, Russian science.
03:45We work with some countries in the region, Saudi Arabia, and we hope to establish this
03:52kind of cooperation with the United Arab Emirates.
03:54I hope those things will be supported by successful participation of Belarus in the next year.
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