Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Armen Ghevondyan, who is in Minsk for the purpose of holding consultations between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Armenia and Belarus, was received by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Vladimir Makey today.

The main issues related to cooperation between Armenia and Belarus were discussed and the need for using the potential for interstate cooperation were highlighted during the meeting.

During the consultations, the Armenian deputy foreign minister and the Belarusian foreign minister substantively considered the course of development and perspectives of the Armenian-Belarusian cooperation in the bilateral format, as well as in the formats of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Eurasian Economic Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States and other multilateral formats. They attached importance to the role of intergovernmental commissions and interparliamentary committees and, during a discussion on the issues on the global and regional agendas, they stated the modernity of further development of cooperation, taking into consideration the main provisions of the Treaty on Friendship and Cooperation signed on May 26, 2001 between Armenia and Belarus.

After the consultations, within the scope of the joint efforts for expansion of the legal-contractual field, the parties signed the Protocol for Making a Supplement to the Intergovernmental Agreement on Reciprocal Visits of Citizens without Patents, as well as the Intergovernmental Agreement on Readmission.