Lukashenko met Erdogan on sidelines of SCO forum

President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko has held a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Astana, BelTA reports

Belarusian-Turkish contacts at the top level are actively developing. The Belarusian leader visited Turkiye four times. In 2016, the first official visit of the Turkish President to Belarus took place. The heads of state hold telephone conversations on a regular basis and meet at international venues.

Turkiye ranks sixth in terms of mutual trade turnover and eighth in terms of exports of Belarusian goods among Belarus’ trading partners. In 2023, the trade turnover exceeded the billion mark for the third year in a row to reach almost $ 1.3bn.

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