"The Republic of Azerbaijan attaches great importance to the further expansion of trade and economic relations with the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Our mutual trade is growing at an increasing rate," said Prime Minister Ali Asadov at a meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the CIS in Minsk, APA reports.
The Prime Minister said that in the first 8 months of this year, the volume of mutual trade between Azerbaijan and the CIS member states increased by more than 21 percent and reached 4.7 billion US dollars: "Diversification of the economy remains one of the state's priority tasks."