This year the Board №1 was in the air for 110 hours and flew 85,950 kilometers.
At the end of the year we can say that half the world's population are our friends.
For example, China, India and Pakistan present the market capacity of nearly 3 billion people. And in spite of the distance, the partnership is close.
The formula of relations with China sounds as comprehensive strategic partnership. It is confirmed by the historic state visit of the Chinese President. Cooperation is observed in almost all spheres: tens of giant investment projects in industry, thousands of new jobs and our own passenger auto industry, soft and comfortable loans. The mutual trade has increased within the last two decades by a hundred times.
Alexander Lukashenko visited Delhi twice, but Pranab Mukherjee comes to Belarus for the first time. In 2020, the expected turnover is set on the level of a billion dollars.
The same figure is expected between Minsk and Islamabad. Thus, the turnover will increase by 15 times. Alexander Lukashenko and Nawaz Sharif have agreed on this in May in Pakistan. Nawaz Sharif paid a return visit to our country just two and a half months later.
Alexander Lukashenko's visit to Georgia was the first official visit in the history of the relations between the two countries.
Alexander Lukashenko and Giorgi Margvelashvili held the talks and took the decision to triple the turnover. This goal can only be achieved with the help of diplomats this is why a Belarusian Embassy will be opened in Georgia.
The head of Serbia became the first foreign president, with whom the Belarusian leader met after the inauguration. In November, the Serbian leader visited the castle Mir, and launched the construction of Minsk-World.
The visit to Vietnam resulted in contacts worth $ 350 million. BelAZ machines return to Vietnamese quarries. Minsk and Hanoi agree on assembling Belarusian trucks and buses for the ASEAN market.
In Turkmenistan, Belarus did not only take part in a joint fair, but stated a reconciliation formula that was picked up not only by presidents of other countries, but also by numerous news agencies across the globe.
Alexander Lukashenko visited Russia four times this year: in addition to the two December meetings in Moscow, it was also a Belarusian fair in Sochi and summits in Ufa.
The Belarusian delegation came to the capital of Bashkortostan as the chairman of the EAEU, and returned in Minsk in the status of an observer of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Moreover, Belarus participated in the BRICS summit.
Thus, it can be stated without exaggeration that half of the world's population are our friends.












