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Alyaksandr Lukashenka has announced that Belarus is prepared to take part in developing oil deposits in Kenya. He made the statement at today’s meeting of the Security Council while commenting on relations with neighbouring countries.
Lukashenka again demanded that Lithuania sit down for bilateral talks — without involving Americans, Ukrainians or Russians — and insisted that external pressure on him would not work. According to him, Belarus has “completely restructured” its economy and is now welcomed across the world.
“They chose this path and think that Americans or some Europeans will come here and put pressure on me. Listen, we have fully restructured. And if we move faster and work more actively in the economy — from Vitsyebsk Region to Homyel Region — we will have no problems at all. We are awaited in many corners of the planet with our technologies and our goods. So if we raise the quality a little (although nobody complains about our quality, but still, we must work on it), we will have no competitors,” he said.
Recalling his meeting earlier today with the speaker of Kenya’s Senate, Amason Jeffah Kingi, Lukashenka mentioned potential cooperation in oil extraction:
“We are going to Africa to help them with technologies. And we have the appropriate machinery for these technologies. We are a machine-building country; agriculture is developed. In Kenya they are ready today to develop oil fields. We are ready to join. We have specialists who know how to do it. So we always come with good intentions. Not to mention our neighbours.
“And if we travel somewhere, if we negotiate with someone, it is not aimed against third countries,” he added.
Lukashenka also repeated his claim that the West is “strangling” Belarus’s foreign partners, while he, in contrast, offers a “hand of friendship and cooperation.”
“States, people, governments understand this perfectly and are ready to build good relations with us,” he said.