BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

07/12/2007

Belarus and Azerbaijan prepare to open regular air traffic for trade turnover growth

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. The government of Belarus and the Ministry of Economic Development of Azerbaijan are working out the issue of optimization of cargo delivery system for two countries' trade development.

At today's media conference in Baku the Byelorussian ambassador Nikolay Patskevich to Azerbaijan said that the proposal package includes not only increase of number of available Baku-Minsk flights.

"The Byelorussian party also worked at the matter of organization of cargo delivery by transport aircrafts. We have already made suggestions for acceptable tariffs for such carriages," Patskevich said.

The MED backs this initiative.

"We also strive to set up Trade & Logistics Centre and are preparing relevant offers," Patskevich said.

Both countries have plans to provide bringing their commodity turnover up to $500 million a year.

"For the first 10 months of 2007 trade turnover between the two countries totaled $74 million, but only $2 million of it falls on export from Azerbaijan. We aspire to obtain equaling of Azerbaijani export with volumes of Belarus," Patskevich said.

Source:

http://abc.az/cgi-bin/wnews_one.cgi?nid=19652&lang=eng