Belarus wants to organize three joint ventures with European companies, as to manufacture wood pellets together.  "We have resumed the negotiations with representatives of European companies over setting up joint ventures to make pellets. We are planning to reach some results by the end of the year,” Mikhail Amelyanovich, Belarus' Forestry Minister, said.  At the moment, there have been talks with a Slovak company to establish such joint venture in Vitebsk Oblast.  Starting January 1st 2015, Belarus has banned the exports of unprocessed wood, so the logs deliveries to Europe have stopped ever since ...