The Foreign Ministry believes that all current problems with payments are solvable. This was stated by First Deputy Foreign Minister Siarhei Lukashevich at a seminar titled “Belarus and Southeast Asia in Search of New Prospects for Cooperation” held at the House of Representatives. According to him, informal methods are also being used to resolve such issues.
“There were issues when payments were refused, or payments existed but compliance procedures for payments — that is, delays in payments — were unjustifiably long, which certainly interfered with supplies, with increasing exports, and generally brought no pleasure from an economic point of view,” he said.
Lukashevich continued at length, emphasizing that the problems are solvable, although, judging by his remarks, they have not been fully resolved.
“Today we are in 2026. To say that we have convinced everyone of our correctness would, of course, be very optimistic. But we have not proceeded only through persuasion. The country moved forward, our delegations moved forward, the heads of our delegations, including parliamentary delegations — we proceeded both through persuasion and through searching for alternative ways of carrying out these payments. Today, of course, I would like to say from this rostrum that no problems exist. But it would probably be more balanced to say that the existing complications are solvable.
Solvable, perhaps not publicly solvable, perhaps not in the traditional way we were accustomed to, for example, 20 years ago, but they are solvable.
For me, this is a very good marker of the adaptation of our economy, of the adaptation of thinking, of the functional thinking of both our government and the banking sector to the conditions that exist. We can debate for a long time whether these conditions are good or bad, in our favor or not, but the fact that we are becoming stronger, that these challenges contribute to such, you know, maturity of our economy and banking sector — that is important. It is always good when everything is good, but in reality professionalism manifests itself when there are elements of turbulence.
So, answering this question, perhaps from afar, in the elements of turbulence in which we find ourselves, our assessment as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is that we are coping with this situation. Even if it is not fully manageable, it is adaptive for making our decisions. At the present moment, the problems that arise — I will say it again — are solvable,” he concluded.