On November 8, the Polish National Exhibition Poland Expo has started its work for the first time in the history of Azerbaijan, Trend reports. The exhibition is expected to last till November 10.
The exhibition is held under the patronage of Speaker of Poland's Senate Bogdan Borusevich and Poland's Economic Minister Peter Gzhegosh Voznyak. Heydar Babayev, Azerbaijani Economic Development Minister took part in the opening of the exhibition.
45 companies participate at Poland Expo. These are companies engaged in food industry, construction sector, production of plastic cards, excise marks, bottle-glass, machinery and equipment for the civil industry, as well as production of helicopters, furniture, services in oil, gas, and water industry, etc.
The organizers of the exhibition are the Centre for Assistance of Polish Economic Chamber which comprises the most Polish entrepreneurs, the Fund of Poland Promotion that represents the best Polish firms, as well as Poland's Embassy to Azerbaijan.
Polish entrepreneurs are very interested in establishing new contacts with Azerbaijan. More than 100 Polish firms participated at the economic forum held in October of this year, on occasion of the meeting of the Polish-Azerbaijani Intergovernmental Commission for Economic Issues. The participants of the forum positively assessed the potential of the mutual beneficial cooperation. For Polish entrepreneurs, Azerbaijan which achieved the highest economic growth among CIS countries together with Russia and Kazakhstan is the territory of the largest foreign investments. Polish entrepreneurs are aware of Azerbaijan's economic potential which is a sequence of both the stable political situation and market reforms that are being introduced.