BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

16.02.2006

Belarus: Poland leading non-CIS partner

Minsk (PAP) - Poland is Belarus' third-largest non-CIS trade partner, last year's turnover between both countries rising 18.5 percent to 1.4 billion USD, Andrei Papou from the Belarussian Foreign Ministry said Thursday in Minsk.

Summing up Polish-Belarussian economic ties, Papou pointed to a marked rise in trade over 2005, especially a 16.3-percent rise in Belarussian exports to Poland.

Papou also noted Belarus' positive trade balance with Poland to the tune of 268 million USD.

Poland's imports from Belarus mainly embrace petroleum products, LPG, potassium fertilizers, kazeine, wood, electricity and steel products.

Source:

http://euro.pap.net.pl/cgi-bin/europap.pl?grupa=46&dzien=0&ID=76752