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During the summit Belarusian minister of foreign affairs also met with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. The two ministers discussed a number of topical matters on the bilateral agenda.
Aleksandr Kulik said: “The idea to create trade platforms under the Lesnoi Domik brand has been backed. The president examined the slides in detail and backed the idea. And he gave instructions to promote it so that we would go out and meet our customers.”
Roman Golovchenko said: “We have yet to make substantial decisions on working out a mechanism for adopting consolidated measures in response to the economic pressure exercised by third countries against the EAEU member states."
The parties discussed the prospect of resuming the work of the joint commission on trade and economic cooperation. High on the agenda of the meeting were also issues of food security and the situation with Belarusian potash fertilizers.
The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) needs to launch and promote new formats of economic cooperation, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said at a meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in Yerevan on 24 August.