Vice Speaker Boleslav Pirshtuk: Expanding ties in the European direction is a priority task for Belarus

29 октября 2018

Vice-Speaker Boleslaw Pirshtuk discussed the common interests of Belarus and the European Union with delegation of the European Parliament: from the development of close economic ties to strengthening common security in Euro region. By the way, Belarus emphasizes the need to step up international cooperation in this area. However, the interests of official Brussels and Minsk do not lie only in the political plane.

Boleslav Pirshtuk, Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus: "We are an export-oriented country with an open economy. We have set ourselves a priority of export diversification. One of the directions is access to the EU, increasing our share there. We don’t hide that we would like to see 30% of our exports going to the EU countries. At the same time, we buy modern European technologies, modernize the national economy."