Chinese Prime Minister’s meeting and consultation with Lukashenko in Belarus
The Chinese Premier said today (Thursday) that China is willing to strengthen multilateral cooperation with Belarus. Minsk also announced that it will sign a free trade agreeme with China for services and investme.
According to Isna, Chinese Premier Li Qiang said today that China is willing to further strengthen multilateral cooperation with Belarus, promote the developme of the global governance system in a fairer and more reasonable direction, and protect the common ierests of developing couries.
Li made these statemes while meeting with Alexander Lukashenko, the Preside of Belarus at the Independence Palace.
He arrived in Minsk today for an official visit at the invitation of Roman Goluchenko, the Prime Minister of Belarus. Stressing the long-standing friendship between China and Belarus, Li noted after his arrival that bilateral relations have developed rapidly since the establishme of diplomatic ties 32 years ago.
According to him, in rece years, under the leadership of Chinese Preside Xi Jinping and Belarusian Preside Alexander Lukashenko, bilateral relations have been coinuously upgraded to a comprehensive strategic partnership, with the coinuous strengthening of political mutual trust, high-quality cooperation of the Belt and Road. It develops steadily, people-to-people coact and cultural exchanges become increasingly close, and iernational cooperation achieves fruitful results.
The Chinese Premier added: “The meeting between the heads of the two couries in July provided new strategic direction and arrangemes for the future of China-Belarus relations.”
Li said China is ready to work closely with Belarus to impleme the importa consensus reached by the leaders of the two couries; Which further strengthens the alignme of developme strategies, deepens mutually beneficial cooperation, shares developme opportunities, and achieves more practical results in order to coinuously promote the welfare of the two nations and further coribute to regional and global peace, stability, developme and prosperity. find
Li’s visit to Belarus came after he co-chaired the 29th regular meeting between the heads of state of China and Russia in Moscow and his visit to Russia.
Meanwhile, during the meeting with Li Qiang, the Preside of Belarus said that Belarus is advancing discussions on 15 major investme projects with China, worth a total of 3 billion dollars, and is actively exploring with Chinese partners. According to the Preside of Belarus, the companies that are built in Belarus will also benefit the Chinese economy.
Signing of trade agreeme between China and Belarus
Belarus, under Western sanctions for supporting Russia in the Ukraine war, announced today that it will sign a free trade agreeme with China for services and investme.
The Belarusian presidency announced in a stateme on its website that Minsk and Beijing will sign a series of bilateral partnership agreemes during Li’s visit.
According to Belta, in this regard, Lukashenko said: “One of them can definitely be called historical; An agreeme on the establishme of a free trade zone for services and investme.
Minsk says the deal will create “clear and predictable rules” that will increase Belarusian exports to China by at least 12 perce and Chinese investme in Belarus by 30 perce over the next five years.
Meanwhile, China is increasing its economic power across Eurasia through massive infrastructure and financial projects, and is seeking to bolster its soft power in an investme program that has alarmed the West. Both Belarus and China have been accused of supporting Moscow’s military attack on Ukraine. Lukashenko said he was to see “massive penetration of Chinese technology” io Belarus in the coming years.
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