| 2 December 2008 A wide range of issues related to the cooperation between Belarus and Sweden was discussed at the Belarusian-Swedish foreign ministry conference in Stockholm on December 2. Deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus Valery Voronetsky and State Secretary at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden Frank Belfrage considered the simplification of procedures to get visas and the reduction of their cost. The sides voiced their support for the development of political dialogue, the expansion of trade, economic and investment cooperation, the improvement of legal-treaty basis, the development of interaction in the humanitarian area. Apart from that, they considered the relations between Belarus and the European Union, their interaction in the Council of the Baltic Sea States and Belarus participation in the Swedish-Polish Eastern Partnership project. Valery Voronetsky met with Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Swedish Parliament, former OSCE PA President Goran Lennmarker to discuss the further development of the dialogue between Belarus and Sweden, first and foremost, the interparliamentary cooperation and the relations between Belarus and key European organizations.
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