Belarus Ambassador: "Azerbaijan is our strategic partner"

The Ambassador said that the Belarus government is ready to help Azerbaijan in transporting Caspian oil and gas to Europe.

Nikolay Paskevich said the volume of trade turnover between the two countries amounted to $28mln last year and $7.3mln in the first three months of this year, APA reports.

"We plan to increase the trade turnover by $50mln. in 2007. The amount of goods export from Belarus to Azerbaijan was 124% last year and 135% from Azerbaijan to Belarus," the Ambassador noted.