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31 Mar 2016

Swedish Foreign Ministry delegation in Belarus on visit

MINSK, 31 March (BelTA) – A delegation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden is in Belarus on a visit on 31 March – 1 April. The delegation is led by State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Annika Soder, BelTA learned from Dmitry Mironchik, Head of the Information Office, Press Secretary of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on 31 March.

While in Belarus members of the Swedish delegation are expected to meet with Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alena Kupchyna. The meetings will focus on bilateral relations, the Belarus-EU dialogue, interaction within the framework of international organizations as well as matters on the international and regional agendas.

Apart from that, on 31 March – 3 April a delegation of the Bulgarian parliament led by Chairman of the Economic Policy and Tourism Commission Petar Kanev is in Belarus on a visit. A number of meetings will take place as well.

In particular, apart from negotiations between representatives of the two parliaments members of the Bulgarian delegation will meet with Alena Kupchyna, who is the head of the Belarusian side of the intergovernmental commission on trade, economic, scientific, and technical cooperation. Plans have been made to discuss prospects of advancing bilateral contacts between the two parliaments and the expansion of humanitarian cooperation. Close attention will be paid to the development of trade and economic relations, including the preparation of the next session of the intergovernmental commission that will take place in Bulgaria in early June.

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