On November 29, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. The Europa League match has fostered friendship between the Belarusian city of Novopolotsk and the Serbian city of Kruševac. Ekaterina Baryshnikova, Head of the Ideological Work Department of the Novopolotsk City Executive Committee, told a BELTA correspondent about the background of the upcoming visit of the Serbian delegation to the city of oilmen. In the first match of the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League, held on July 19 this year in Vitebsk, the Novopolotsk football club "Naftan" played against the Serbian "Crvena Zvezda". Among the fans were the Chairperson of the Novopolotsk City Executive Committee, Natalya Kochanova, and representatives of Serbian business circles. It was then, according to Ekaterina Baryshnikova, that they decided that in addition to sports contacts, it was necessary to establish cultural and economic ties. The city of Kruševac, an economic, administrative, industrial, cultural, educational, informational, and sports centre of the Rasina District and the community of the same name, has acted as a potential partner for Novopolotsk. It is expected that on December 1, the head of this city, his deputy, and representatives of business circles will arrive in Novopolotsk, where they will meet with the mayor and discuss the possibilities and prospects of bilateral cooperation, as well as visit the city's industrial enterprises. Kruševac is an industrial centre with a developed metalworking and chemical industry. It hosts the "Rubin" alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage factory, as well as about 1.2 thousand private enterprises. Novopolotsk maintains trade and economic relations with all CIS countries and more than 30 foreign countries. Novopolotsk has long-term twin-city and partnership relations with cities in Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, France, and China.-0-

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