Lukashenko convened meeting on foreign trade activities
President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko has convened a meeting on foreign trade activities today. At the beginning of the event, the Head of State explained that the discussion would focus on Belarus’ foreign trade this year, including the fact that the West does not want to liaise with our country in the economic sphere.
“We understand perfectly well that they have absolutely no need for us with our products. Unnecessary competition in the automotive industry and other sectors is not on the agenda of Western countries, at the instigation of the US. It is no secret that today we trade most of all in the eastern direction, although we are not completely moving away from the West. We trade and sell what interests them and what is profitable for us, but it is not the necessary volumes and money,” the President noted.
The Head of State said that as of today the Belarusian side had received four or five invitations from eastern states, including Pakistan, Indonesia, North Korea and others, to meet at the highest level and discuss co-operation, “There are fundamental issues that need to be settled. This concerns mutual settlements, supplies of our military products, firefighting equipment, etc. That’s why I have invited you to discuss this range and areas of our co-operation, the things that interest our partners in the East. Although we will not say that Venezuela in the West does not want to liaise with us. Of course, it does.”