{"id":524145,"date":"2026-03-09T17:44:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=524145"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:10:42","slug":"belarus-approves-program-to-develop-cooperation-with-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-approves-program-to-develop-cooperation-with-africa","title":{"rendered":"Belarus Approves Program To Develop Cooperation With Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Presidium of the Council of Ministers of Belarus has approved a government action program for developing cooperation between Belarus and African countries for 2026\u20132030.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe goal of the action program is to create a systemic mechanism for establishing the Republic of Belarus on the African continent as a reliable trade and economic partner possessing modern and competitive goods, services, technologies and competencies,\u201d<\/i> the government\u2019s press service reported.<\/p>\n<p>The program\u2019s objectives include forming effective political, trade and economic, logistical and humanitarian tools for promoting Belarus\u2019s interests in Africa, as well as establishing sustainable ties with countries across the continent.<\/p>\n<p>The program defines promising areas of cooperation, export-oriented goods, and instruments for achieving the set goals and tasks.<\/p>\n<p>African countries have been prioritized according to the intensity of cooperation. Factors considered included the presence of diplomatic missions, the nature of bilateral political, trade and economic, and humanitarian relations, the economic potential of partner countries, and the existence of joint projects under consideration.<\/p>\n<p>African countries have been divided into three categories: key footholds, promising countries, and countries for targeted initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>The document sets indicative targets for exports of goods and services to African countries for 2026\u20132030. These are broken down by key footholds, promising countries, and other states, and \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0443\u0441\u043c\u0430\u0442\u0440\u0438\u0432\u0430\u044e\u0442 increasing export targets for sectoral ministries, state committees and state-run concerns.<\/p>\n<p>By 2030 Belarus plans to export goods and services to Africa worth about 1.5 billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The government expects that implementation of the program will ensure systematic work to intensify cooperation with African countries and increase supplies of Belarusian products to the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidium of the Council of Ministers of Belarus has approved a government action program for developing cooperation between Belarus and African countries for 2026\u20132030. \u201cThe goal of the action program is to create a systemic mechanism for establishing the Republic of Belarus on the African continent as a reliable trade and economic partner possessing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":524144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69aeff16bc5c9.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus Approves Program To Develop Cooperation With Africa"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524145","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=524145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}