{"id":500295,"date":"2025-12-05T12:22:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=500295"},"modified":"2025-12-05T15:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T12:11:29","slug":"joint-investment-fund-new-pulp-and-board-mill-and-logistics-hub-lukashenka-holds-another-round-of-talks-in-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/joint-investment-fund-new-pulp-and-board-mill-and-logistics-hub-lukashenka-holds-another-round-of-talks-in-oman","title":{"rendered":"Joint Investment Fund, New Pulp and Board Mill, and Logistics Hub: Lukashenka Holds Another Round of Talks in Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/strong> met today in Oman with President of the Oman Investment Authority Abdulsalam bin Mohammed Al Murshidi<\/b>.<\/p>\n

According to the press service, the parties reviewed the full range of joint projects. The main topics included:<\/p>\n

\u2022 a joint Belarus\u2013Oman investment fund in Minsk to finance projects in Belarus;
\n\u2022 construction of a pulp-and-board mill in Belarus;
\n\u2022 an Omani logistics hub for Belarusian goods and development of the North\u2013South route;
\n\u2022 investment in Belarus\u2019s agro-industrial complex with food supplies to Oman and the region, along with a discussion of Omani seafood exports to Belarus;
\n\u2022 a tourism cluster with Oman as a platform for joint projects, and investment in tourism facilities in Belarus;
\n\u2022 a trilateral project with Algeria to create a joint production facility for complex fertilizers.<\/p>\n

A presentation was also given to Lukashenka on the implementation of the bilateral cooperation roadmap.<\/p>\n

Additional Information<\/p>\n

The press service released Lukashenka\u2019s remarks from the meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have plenty to discuss. We have worked together for a long time and developed many joint Belarus\u2013Oman projects. It is probably time to systematize them and decide how we will proceed. But I am satisfied with your recent statement \u2014 I remembered it. You told me: \u2018Mr. President, within the next year or two you will see real progress on the specific projects we have outlined.\u2019\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

He added that after his visit to Algeria and talks with the Algerian president, additional projects emerged that required discussion in Oman.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe agreed to establish a joint Belarus\u2013Oman investment fund in Minsk that will finance projects in Minsk,\u201d<\/i> he said, noting that there are seven to eight concrete areas of cooperation.<\/p>\n

Regarding the new pulp-and-board mill, Lukashenka said pre-investment and project work is underway, the site has been chosen, and no major obstacles are expected.<\/p>\n

Lukashenka also said that Belarus and Oman are halfway through creating a Belarusian logistics hub in Oman.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have learned to produce almost everything needed in this region, the so-called far arc in our foreign policy. But I openly admitted that we are much worse at trading than our Omani colleagues. You have huge opportunities in the region, especially in East Africa. That is why we decided to create a Belarusian hub here \u2014 a transshipment center for our goods for re-export.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Food supplies, he added, will be in particularly high demand, and both sides are already exchanging agricultural products. He said Belarus is ready to expand deliveries of dairy and meat products.<\/p>\n

Lukashenka also proposed developing a tourism hub in Oman.<\/p>\n

\u201cOman is a very important destination for our people. We would like to have a Belarusian tourist cluster here, near the airport. I am very grateful for the large plot of land allocated for us in an exotic place with an oasis and a comfortable climate. Belavia already operates direct flights, and we are ready to expand travel to Oman.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

He further suggested creating a production facility for complex mineral fertilizers, a concept he previously discussed in Algeria. He pointed to Belarus\u2019s capabilities in nitrogen, phosphate and potash fertilizer production, as well as Algeria\u2019s large natural-gas reserves and future phosphate output.<\/p>\n

The meeting was also attended by Abdullah Al Rashdi<\/strong>, CEO of Oman Food Capital, and Ali Al Farsi<\/strong>, the official overseeing cooperation with Belarus at the Oman Investment Authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alyaksandr Lukashenka met today in Oman with President of the Oman Investment Authority Abdulsalam bin Mohammed Al Murshidi. According to the press service, the parties reviewed the full range of joint projects. The main topics included: \u2022 a joint Belarus\u2013Oman investment fund in Minsk to finance projects in Belarus; \u2022 construction of a pulp-and-board mill […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":500294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6932cbf816558.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Joint Investment Fund, New Pulp and Board Mill, and Logistics Hub: Lukashenka Holds Another Round of Talks in Oman"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}