BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

21/04/2006

Belarussian president calls for promoting bilateral ties with Iran

Moscow, April 21, IRNA

Belarussian president in a meeting with Iran's Commerce Minister Masoud Mirkazemi on Friday called for promoting bilateral relations in all fields.

Alyaksandr R. Lukashenko said, the current level of trade exchanges between the two countries are not corresponding to existing potentials and keeping the current level is not acceptable.

The current level of trade exchange between Iran and Belarus is around 40 million dollars.

Referring to Iran as one of the main exporters of oil and the existing of advanced oil and petrochemical industries in Belarus, the president said the two countries have potentials for more trade between each other.

He told the Iranian minister to convey his message to the Iranian president that the Belarussian side is ready to implement all existing agreements.

Mir-Kazemi, for his part, said the Iranian president considers relations with Belarus "Important" and follows the cooperation development trend carefully.

He also submitted President Ahmadinejad's written message to the President Lukashenko.

The commerce minister told reporters President Ahmadinejad, in his message, emphasized the importance of consolidating bilateral ties and to common approaches of both countries, not only in political field, but in economic, scientific and technological areas, too.

The 7th joint economic cooperation commission of Iran-Belarus was convened in Minsk Thursday and Mir-Kazemi from Iran and Anatol Rosteskoy, Industry minister of Belarus, co-chaired the meeting.

Source:

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-237/0604217576195421.htm