AKIPRESS.COM - The preparations issues for an official visit of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko to Tajikistan were discussed at the meeting between Belarus' Ambassador Oleg Ivanov and Tajikistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sirodjidin Aslov, BelTA reports.

The sides considered issues of holding the Belarus' National Exhibition in Tajikistan and the second international business forum Belarus-Tajikistan-Afghanistan. The events are expected to be held during the visit of the Belarusian head of state.

The two also raised the issues of cooperation of integration associations. A large-scale exhibition of Belarusian products and a business forum in Tajikistan were discussed during Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon's visit to Minsk in December 2017. Alexander Lukashenko then said : “The main thing is that we have agreed to organize a large-scale exhibition of our companies in Tajikistan in the near future, perhaps in spring, so that we could enter the Afghan and Pakistani markets together.”