OREANDA-NEWS. April 22, 2013. Prime Minister of Belarus Mikhail Myasnikovich and Premier of Lithuania Algirdas Butkevicius met in Klaipeda to discuss the prospects of bilateral economic cooperation, joint projects and outline promising areas for integration cooperation.

Mikhail Myasnikovich thanked Lithuania for the opportunity to meet and discuss the issues of current importance. “The governments should create comfortable conditions for our companies to advance trade and economic cooperation,” he noted. Today the two states are advancing to investment cooperation, Mikhail Myasnikovich stated.

Belarus is Lithuania’s important economic partner including in the transport sector, Algirdas Butkevicius stressed. The Lithuanian Premier is convinced that this sector has huge reserves for cooperation. “It would be great if Lithuanian companies could gain firmer foothold on the Belarusian market, and Belarusian companies saw Lithuania as a gateway to the European Union,” he noted.

Mikhail Myasnikovich arrived in Klaipeda with a Belarusian delegation to partake in the Belarusian-Lithuanian economic forum on 17-19 April. This annual event makes a platform for discussing trade, economic and investment cooperation. Besides, Klaipeda is expected to host the first joint meeting of the Belarusian and Lithuanian business councils on economic and trade cooperation and a business matchmaking session. Attending the events are nearly 300 representatives of Belarus, Lithuania, and Finland.