For the fifth successive year, EAST research fellow Andrei Yeliseyeu publishes review of the Belarus’ economic and political relations with developing countries for the annual Belarusian Yearbook. The year 2016 saw a downturn in Belarus’ diplomatic contacts with developing countries in comparison with the previous year, although they were on an upswing in 2011-2014. The most important trends:
• Stagnation in the diplomatic contacts with developing countries continues;
• Belarus makes attempts to achieve observer status in a number of regional organizations to maintain and develop relations with distant countries;
• Modest progress was achieved in creating free trade zones between the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) member states and developing countries;
• The statistics of official trade with many developing countries was distorted because of the re-export of embargoed products from Belarus to Russia.
Read the full chapter: Relations between Belarus and developing countries in 2016: Logical stagnation
Download full edition of the Belarusian Yearbook 2017
Download Andrei Yeliseyeu‘s chapters on Belarus’ relations with developing countries for earlier editions of the Belarusian Yearbook:
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