(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) Minsk is hopeful that at the end of the outgoing year the amount
of Belarusian exports to Russia will be about $22-23 billion,
Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said on Saturday,
trend reports
citing tass .
'As the results of the ten months show, exports to the Russian
Federation amounted to $18 billion. This is much bigger than in all
the previous years. I will give you the average figure for our
exports in previous years, it is $12-13 billion per year. Now we
have $18 [billion] over the ten months, and I think, I hope, that
we will have about $22-23 billion by the end of the year,' he said
in a video released on Saturday by the Belarusian government's
press service.
Golovchenko pointed out that currently the export rate was even
higher, as multiple engineering products are being shipped at the
end of the year, so Belarus' proportion in Russian imports is
growing. The Belarusian prime minister emphasized that economic
cooperation between Moscow and Minsk is being strengthened.
'Particularly [if we] take into account the fact that the
Russian economy is demonstrating quite positive rates and is
successfully coping with sanctions, as well as the Republic of
Belarus, in other words, both of us are successfully coping,' he
said.
According to the prime minister, all preconditions show that
next year would not be worse than this one.
The Belarusian prime minister said that the exports plans of
Belarus had already been brought to life in 70 Russian regions.
'In my opinion, the export is more than $100 million in 14
Russian regions,' he concluded.
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