Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to our republic, Gennady Archimovich said in his interview to “Sharg Qapisi” newspaper that he was pleased to visit autonomous republic. Diplomat emphasized that Nakhchivan gained achievements in some fields and it is worth being taken as a sample. Furthermore, he noted that it was important to apply advanced experience in the Republic of Belarus gained by autonomous republic . Gennady Akhramovich said:
- This is my first visit to Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. I work in the Republic of Azerbaijan more than a year. I was eager to pay visit to the ancient place of Azerbaijan which is close friend of the Republic of Belarus. I know that Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic is a place where great national leader of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev was born and grew up and also a region which bestowed a number of historic persons, conquerors, educated people, figures of science to Azerbaijan. That is why, I was pleased to visit this unique place. I want, especially, to emphasize that all my positive thoughts about this beautiful land not only justified themselves, but also uniqueness of autonomous republic fascinated me more than I expected and made very rich impressions. Cleanness and tidiness in the streets of Nakhchivan city, hospitable and affable people reminded me my own homeland, Belarus. Nakhchivan-born people may be proud of creating marvelous composition of modernity with historicity, protecting national values in the highest level and gaining great success in all these fields. Though my visit program to autonomous republic was too busy, I was acquainted with a number of historical-cultural monuments. They were really amazing. While getting acquainted with the economic potentiality of Nakhchivan , we were informed that autonomous republic completely provides itself with food products at the result of people’s hard toil, intended activity and right economic policy pursued here. This achievement of Nakhchivan amazes the people. This big experience gained by autonomous republic constitutes a pattern some countries. This experience is of great significance when it is applied in the regions of Belarus.
Here I was also in high education schools. All conditions have been created for the students to be brought up as prepared cadres in Universities. Everything is perfect. Because of this, I think it is important to build up close relations between high education institutions of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and high schools of the Republic of Belarus. We want to collaborate in all fields. During the meetings we discussed about the extensions of the relations with the heroic Brest city of the Republic of Belarus and Nakhchivan city recently. An agreement was signed about collaboration in economic-commercial and humanitarian-cultural fields between Nakhchivan and Brest cities in 2012, these two cities were declared “sister” cities. We want this partnership to make progress in a new course dynamically. We will not lack our efforts in building close relations between the regions of the Republic of Belarus and Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic in the future. We have been to the institutions of Nakhchivan where construction materials are produced. Especially, the conversion of stone products in a high level, the quality of the products are noticeable. Let me note that we need these products too much. As construction works have extended in Belarus today and a number of objects are being constructed. We would like to use stone products of Nakhchivan in constructions of those objects. In a word, we are interested in exportation of products to Belarus which are produced in Nakhchivan. We were also in Duzdag Physiotherapy Center. We watched salt tunnel and salt rocks there in surprise. We have learnt that there is treatment of different lung diseases here. In this way I find it important to extend the relations in the field of health tourism between Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and the Republic of Belarus. I think these relations will have very big perspectives . We also have other plans in this collaboration field. However, it is important to discuss about the matters provoking mutual interest , to continue the meetings for their realization. We will take concrete steps in this direction next months. The major thing is that both sides have the same views in the matter of development of relations. In this sense, I am very satisfied with my visit to autonomous republic. My visit gave a better result than I expected.