Белорусско-югославские экономические взаимосвязи в 1990-е гг.

Abstract

One of the vital directions of the international relations is economic cooperation. Trade and economic ties of the states are mainly determined by their political relations and play an important role in the solution of domestic and foreign policy issues. Their stable development proves positive nature of the states' relations also in the foreign policy sphere as well. The article explores basic directions and forms of economic cooperation of the Republic of Belarus and the United Republic of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The Yugoslavian (Serbian) vector has played and is still playing an important role in the foreign policy of the Republic of Belarus. Slavonic roots and close historical ties predetermined its special importance for Minsk. Tracing the development of organizational and legal, conceptual and practical aspects of bilateral Belarusian- Yugoslavian economic cooperation the author notes b o t h positive results and outstanding potential in each of these aspects. The author analyzes conditions, prerequisites, specific features and difficulties of Belarusian-Yugoslavian economic relations in the 1990s, notes hardships that did not allow to fully realize the potential of increasing trade turnover between the states. The Belarusian economy, like the Yugoslavian one is rapidly becoming open to the global market and export is its basic orientation. For this purpose the authorities changed laws, introduced customs, fiscal and financial concessions for investments of foreign capital. Both Yugoslavia (since 2003 — Serbia and Montenegro) and Belarus are economies with great potential, impressive technical and technological intellectual assets. The author believes that despite the existing hardships with realization of economic cooperation plans between the states there are good prospects for its further enhancement. The sources of the article are mainly materials and documents from the archives of the Republic of Belarus and the materials of periodical press. The main part of the sources is used in scientific research for the first time.