Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz invited Alyaksandr Lukashenka to visit Austria.
“Having accepted the invitation, the President of Belarus, in turn, invited the Federal Chancellor to visit Belarus together with the business circles,” the presidential press service reports.
During the conversation the sides paid special attention to the latest Minsk Dialogue international forum and the Core Group Meeting of the Munich Security Conference which is expected to take place in Belarus in the autumn of 2018.
Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Sebastian Kurz also spoke about the operation of the Belarusian telecommunications sector, in particular, the work on the market and the further development of Velcom which is an affiliated company of Telekom Austria AG.
By the moment, there have been no reports about the telephone conversation in Austrian media.
In October , the European Union expressed readiness to welcome the Belarusian president at the EaP summit which was scheduled for November, 24. It was the first time he had received a personal invitation to the Brussels. For years, the Belarusian leader had been denied entry to EU member coutries. However, he failed to participate at the high-profile event and gave no reason. The Belarusian delegation was headed by Foreign Minister Uladzimir Makey.
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