Azerbaijan, Baku / corr Trend S.Agayeva / Nikolay Patzkevich, the Belarusian ambassador to Azerbaijan, stated at a news conference in Baku on 20 April that it is planned to increase the amount of goods turnover between Azerbaijan and Belarus to $50mln in 2007.
"It exceeded last year's figure of $28mln two-fold," he stressed. Over the first 2 months goods turnover between the two counties comprised $7.3mln.
The ambassador noted the tendency of increase export of both countries observed over the first months. Though export of Belarusian goods to Azerbaijan exceeds the import of Azerbaijani goods, an increase of exported Azerbaijani goods made up 135% against 124% of exported Belarusian goods to Azerbaijan, he added.