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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan hopes to increase trade with Belarus, Kazakhstan's Ambassador to Belarus Askar Beisenbayev said during a meeting with Belarus First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Turchin in Minsk on September 18, Belarus’s BelTA news agency reported. Continue reading
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko plans to visit Kazakhstan in the near future. The Belarusian leader said this as he met with outgoing Kazakhstan's Ambassador to Belarus Ermukhamet Ertysbayev on August 28 in Minsk, BelTA news agency reported. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko held negotiations in Minsk on August 1. They focused on the enhancement of trade and economic cooperation, the development of industrial cooperation and interregional exchange, the press service of the Uzbek president said. Mirziyoyev said that over the last two years, the volume of bilateral trade has grown almost fourfold, and that it is essential to uphold and shore up the established dynamics of trade. Strengthening trade and economic ties is the number one goal in Belarus-Uzbekistan relations, President Lukashenko said, adding that “Belarus is ready to expand economic cooperation with Uzbekistan, including through joint investment projects”. During the Belarusian president's visit to Uzbekistan in 2018, the parties agreed to set up several dairies with the help of Belarusian companies. There are plans to equip them with Belarusian equipment. So far, only one joint company has been set up in Tashkent Oblast, Belarusian BelTA news agency reported. “We need to complete these three projects and build milk processing companies to sell not only within Uzbekistan but also to its neighbors, including Afghanistan. Perhaps we have some problems with financing these projects. Here, we also need to take a look at these projects. We have already prepared the schedule plan for the delivery of 1,500 head of cattle to Uzbekistan in 2019-2020. We will build these complexes and deliver cattle,” Lukashenko said. The Belarusian president named IT sector as a promising area of bilateral cooperation. He said that Belarus has been successfully developing information systems in areas such as public management, transport, financing and credit. “We suggest implementing projects in Uzbekistan to introduce an automated gas recording system with the Belarusian software and utility meters, upgrade and automate gas distribution and gas transportation networks. If these projects are okayed, we are ready to start working on them,” Lukashenko said.
TASHKENT (TCA) — A package of interregional agreements on cooperation was signed at the 1st Forum of Regions of Belarus and Uzbekistan held on July 30 in Minsk, Belarusian BelTA news agency reported. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay the first official visit to Belarus on July 31-August 1, Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Belarus Nasirdjan Yusupov told a press briefing in Minsk, Belarusian BelTA news agency reported. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon and Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko have signed an agreement on strategic cooperation between Tajikistan and Belarus. The document was signed on June 28 in Minsk, where Rahmon arrived with an official visit. Belarus and Tajikistan will step up efforts to implement a cooperation roadmap, Lukashenko said during his talks with Rahmon earlier in the day, BelTA news agency reported. “We will take measures to intensify a roadmap of our relations, discuss closer cooperation between Tajikistan, Belarus and third countries, especially Afghanistan. You suggested that we engage Afghanistan in this cooperation,” the Belarusian leader said. The Belarusian president also expressed concern over a decrease in the volume of his country’s trade with Tajikistan. “The Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the governments should rectify trade between the two countries. We also need to step up efforts to promote joint products on the markets of third countries,” Lukashenko said. In 2018 Belarus-Tajikistan trade totaled $37.4 million, down by nearly 13%. Belarus' export made up $33.4 million, import stood at $4 million. Since the beginning of 2019, the bilateral trade has been experiencing a downturn. In January-April the bilateral trade shrank to $12.1 million, which was 83.2% as of the same period a year before. Belarus' main exports to Tajikistan included tractors, automobiles, sugar, chipboards, carpets, refrigerators, and tires. Belarus imported from Tajikistan fruits, nuts, dried fruits, cotton fiber, cotton yarn, and textile apparel. An enterprise assembling Belarus’ MTZ tractors operates in Hisor, Tajikistan. Work is in progress to set up a joint Tajik-Belarusian dairy enterprise in Dushanbe.
