ZHLOBIN, 18 March (BelTA) – It is important to work out an optimal plan for providing metallurgical enterprises of the Eurasian Economic Union member states with raw materials. Member of the Board (Minister) for Industry and Agribusiness Complex of the Eurasian Economic Commission Artak Kamalyan made the statement as he visited the Belarusian steel mill BMZ, BelTA has learned.

The Eurasian Economic Commission representative was made familiar with the operation of the steel mill. He also discussed prospects of the metallurgical industry with the management of the company. Problems were also mentioned.

Artak Kamalyan stressed that the key purpose of the visit was to understand the current state of affairs with regard to the availability of scrap metal in Belarus and in the country's primary metallurgical enterprise BMZ in particular. The official said: “For the last half a year our commission has been rather actively discussing the provision of Eurasian metallurgical enterprises with scrap metal. It was one of the key topics during the latest session of the intergovernmental council in Almaty. Among other things the conversation touched upon the development and adoption of an action plan on raising the effectiveness of provision of Eurasian Economic Union metallurgical enterprises with primary raw materials. Today we've discussed the main aspects of raw materials availability with the BMZ management. BMZ gets roughly 50% of its scrap metal from Belarus and imports 50% from the Russian Federation.”