OREANDA-NEWS. Foreign investments in Belarus are expected to exceed $3 billion in the nine month of 2007, Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov told deputies of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus on October 26, reported the Official website www.government.by.

The number of investment offers has been constantly growing. In H 1 2007 the foreign investments doubled as compared to the same time last year to reach $2,3 billion.

Capital investment soared by 16.6% in January-September. The country credit rating that Belarus received in August this year also promotes the investment inflow.

The Government attaches special importance to investments in the innovation sphere. According to Andrei Kobyakov, main investment projects of all the ministries, concerns, Belarusian oblasts and Minsk City have been considered. The number of projects on setting up new manufactures under the innovation development programme grew from 100 to 168.