Belarusian-Azerbaijani business forum begins in Minsk

Alexander Lukashenko and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who is arriving in Minsk today, are scheduled to hold narrow and expanded format negotiations and sign international documents. Promising prospects for developing bilateral trade-economic and investment cooperation are already being discussed by the business circles of the two countries. Today"s Belarusian-Azerbaijani business forum in Minsk will consider possibilities of establishing joint ventures and new cooperation formats in education, health care and construction.
The volume of trade between the countries has reached about 330 million dollars over the past five years.