The Ministry of Economy of Belarus registered two new centers for supporting small businesses in December

December 13, Minsk /Natalia Verbitskaya - BELTA/. The Commission for Entrepreneurship Support under the Department for Entrepreneurship of the Ministry of Economy of Belarus made a decision in December of the current year to register two new small business support centers – in Vitebsk and Orsha. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the press service of the Ministry of Economy. A decision was made to register the educational institution "Vitebsk Regional Training Center for Training, Professional Development and Retraining of Personnel 'Law and Order-Accounting'" and the communal unitary consulting enterprise "Orsha Regional Entrepreneurship Support Center" as small business support centers. In total, there are currently 52 such centers operating in Belarus. Minsk leads in terms of their number, with 16 small business support centers registered. There are nine in the Mogilev region, six each in the Brest, Gomel, and Grodno regions, seven in the Vitebsk region, and two in the Minsk region. In addition, there are 9 small business incubators operating. Two incubators are registered in Minsk. There is one incubator each in the Minsk region, Grodno region, Mogilev, Vitebsk, Grodno, Gomel, and Brest. Entrepreneurship support centers provide information and consulting support to small business entities, the unemployed, students, and other categories of citizens. The centers provide reference and analytical information, consult on various issues of organization creation and management, provide methodological support to small business entities, assistance in preparing business plans, and assistance in obtaining loans and training personnel. -0-