MINSK, March 31 (BelTA) – Belarus and Serbia signed an intergovernmental free trade agreement in Minsk on March 31. The document was signed by Foreign Minister of Belarus Sergei Martynov and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Regional Development of Serbia Mladjan Dinkic. “This is a document of fundamental important. The document creates the prerequisites for boosting bilateral trade,” Vladimir Semashko said. “In a year the Belarus-Serbia trade will be no less than $100 million,” he said. According to Vladimir Semashko, today the sides discussed certain projects and identified the forms of future cooperation. “We have agreed to resume the work of the Belarusian-Serbian trade-economic commission. It will have its session in Minsk or Belgrade no later than September,” he said. An agreement was reached to create a Business Cooperation Council to promote interaction between business-communities of the two countries. For his part, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Regional Development of Serbia Mladjan Dinkic said that the free trade agreement will enable Belarus and Serbia to increase the trade at least five times. “This document opens up an opportunity to export products duty-free from Serbia to Belarus and from Belarus to Serbia except for some types of products. We have good prospects in exporting products to third countries,” he said. Serbia has signed free trade agreement with Russia, EU countries, Balkan states, he added. The sides also signed an intergovernmental agreement on temporary employment of citizens of Belarus in Serbia and citizens of Serbia in Belarus. According to the Vice-Premier, there are many opportunities of creating joint Belarusian-Serbian companies. БЕЛТА
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