Roadmap for the development of cooperation between Belarus and Azerbaijan until 2025 was signed on Thursday, June sixth in Minsk.
Signatures under the document were set by the Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Igor Petrishenko and Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Ali Akhmedov, the Belarusian State Media reports.
The protocol of the 14th meeting of the intergovernmental Belarusian-Azerbaijani commission on trade and economic cooperation was also signed.
Among other documents signed following a meeting of the Intervality Commission – a memorandum of cooperation between the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Agency for the Development of the Small and Medium Business of Azerbaijan.
A memorandum of cooperation between the Republican Institute of Professional Education (Belarus) and the State Agency for Professional Education of the Ministry of Science and Education of Azerbaijan.
was signed.
The technical rules for organizing information interaction were also approved when performing control measures using info -systems in the field of phytosanitary control between the Main State Inspectorate for Semenovod, the Plants of Belarus and the Azerbaijani Food Safety Agency.
Azerbaijan is interested in activating interaction with Belarus
Speaking at a meeting, Ali Akhmedov said that Azerbaijan was interested in activating interaction in Belarus.
According to him, an active political dialogue between the presidents of countries provides sustainable dynamics over the entire spectrum of mutually beneficial cooperation.
“Our countries managed to build a constructive dialogue and create an extensive legal framework consisting of 50 documents and covering almost all spheres. The state visit of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, which recently took place, confirmed the focus of strengthening the mutual interaction between countries. A solid package was signed by a solid package documents aimed at building bilateral cooperation in various fields, ”said Akhmedov.
He attracted attention to the fact that according to the results of last year, the turnover between the countries exceeded $ 400 million, while the Belarusian export amounted to $ 370 million, increasing by 77 percent to the level of 2022.
“The dynamics of the growth of trade this year allows us to say that we will make up the lost and we can reach higher indicators,” Ali Akhmedov added and noted that in the first quarter the volume of mutual trade has grown by more than 30 percent.
He also called for intensifying investment cooperation and expressed the hope that the holding of the Belarusian-Azerbaijani business forum scheduled for Friday would give the impulse to activate cooperation between entrepreneurs of the two countries.