BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

06/06/2008

Potential volume of Azerbaijan-Belarus trade turnover estimated by Azerbaijan in $2 billion

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Azerbaijan and Belarus see a big potential of increasing the trade turnover between them.

Azerbaijan Republic Minister of Economic Development Heydar Babayev said there is a good investment climate in Belarus and the country is interesting for Azerbaijan.

"We are ready to examine some projects with Belarus. We could base on our cooperation with Russia, within which we have about $2 bn of trade turnover. We see the same potential with Belarus and have to base on $70 million of current turnover and increase it year-by-year," H.Babayev said.

In 2006 trade turnover totaled $20 million.

Source:

http://abc.az/cgi-bin/wnews_one.cgi?nid=24818&lang=eng

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