Белорусско-турецкие экономические отношения: современное состояние, проблемы и перспективы

Abstract

The article offers the data and the analysis of the trade and economic relations between Belarus and Turkey, starting with the USSR period and up to the present. It gives the highest and lowest commodity turnover points and the trade structure between the countries. It also evaluates reasons for the l ow level of current cooperation caused b y a range of objective and subjective factors on both sides. The author marks the following promising directions of economic cooperation between the two countries: tourism development, turn-key construction and others. The author points out the unsolved issues and difficulties in the Belarus-Turkey relations: the red tape in obtaining visas, absence of regular air flights between the two countries, high shipping costs, difficulties in the currency conversion and expenses repatriation.