'Relations between Belarus and Azerbaijan distinguished by high dynamism'

Tue 28 August 2012 13:20 GMT | 18:20 Local Time

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Ilham Aliyev

Relations between Belarus and Azerbaijan are distinguished by a high degree of dynamism and specificity, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said Tuesday at a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, agency BELTA reported.

"Our relationship is distinguished by high level dynamism, specificity, predictability. Most importantly, the mechanism of implementation of decisions has been brought to the highest quality, said Aliyev.

"All that we agree we see in the results: the new production, expansion of existing facilities, new perspectives, new ideas."

According to Aliyev, recently, the scope of mutual cooperation expanded significantly. This is evidenced by the fact that the delegation of Azerbaijan during the current visit included a large part of government representatives.

President Aliyev pointed out the increased volume of trade between Belarus and Azerbaijan, which last year amounted to nearly USD 1bn. This was mainly due to expansion of cooperation in the energy sphere.

But in the future, according to him, the growth of trade should take place not only at the expense of energy, but also due to the increase in sales of goods and services.

Ilham Aliyev believes that in those productions that were created in Azerbaijan jointly with Belarus, there are good prospects for the development and release of their products to other countries.

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