Lukashenko: all issues related to port infrastructure construction settled
Diversification of export routes has become one of the topics of today's meeting with the President at the Palace of Independence
Aleksandr Lukashenko commented on the topic, “Due to last year’s attempts to strangle us with sanctions, the existing logistics were disrupted. We had to look for new logistical paths for supply, sales of our products. These points should be discussed as well. I believe all issues have been resolved – at least what you asked me to resolve at the level of the President of the Russian Federation in order to open ports for us. There remains just one minor problem: to start shipping at these ports. We have already begun shipping something, so we need to build these ports faster, to bring them to a certain level and to trade through our own ports, rather than someone else's. These issues need to be discussed today.”
Anticipating the reports of those present, the Head of State noted, “We need to step up, we need to accelerate. Otherwise, complacency will result in a failure of this year – thus becoming a groundwork for the remaining years of the five-year plan, in a negative way, of course.”
