BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

28/03/2007

The fourth meeting of the Azerbaijan-Belarus Intergovernmental Commission for Economic Cooperation has been held in Baku, Wednesday.

The meeting co-chair on Azerbaijani side, Deputy Premier Yagub Eyyubov said President Ilham Aliyev's visit to Belarus last year opened a new page of cooperation between the two countries.

Agreement envisioning social-economic cooperation between the two nations until 2015 was reached during the visit.

He said Azerbaijan and Belarus are enjoying good relations in every sphere, Baku-Minsk flight opened in February, 2007.

The commission co-chair on Belarus side, Chief of the Cabinet Council, Valeriy Kazakevich, said 12 enterprises are operating with Belarus capital in Azerbaijan, adding that Minsk will host the next meeting in the first half of 2008.

At the end of the event, Azerbaijan and Belarus Prime Ministers Artur Rasizade and Sergey Sidorski signed a final protocol and a memorandum envisioning expansion of bilateral economic and commercial relations until 2015. /APA-Economics/

Source:

http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=23404