Belarus is exchanging its goods, equipment and technologies for sanctions, - ISW
Date: 2024-07-22 Author: Кирило Загоруйко Categories: WORLD
Belarus can exchange sanctioned goods from some countries in exchange for its own. We are talking about Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba.
According to the Institute for the Study of War, Minsk can sell them goods and exchange them for those that the Republic of Belarus and Russia cannot purchase on their own due to Western sanctions.
According to experts, this is evidenced by the actions of Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko, who recently signed several bilateral economic and trade agreements during a visit to these countries.
In particular, from July 14 to 16, he visited Venezuela and met with Venezuelan officials, including the country's President Nicolas Maduro. Golovchenko said that his visit is aimed at discussing trade and the economic sphere.
Then, from July 16 to 17, the Belarusian prime minister visited Cuba, where he signed contracts worth “millions of dollars” for the supply of unspecified Belarusian goods in exchange for Cuban exports.
Finally, he visited Nicaragua on July 18-19 and signed contracts worth $85 million. The agreements are aimed at bilateral economic cooperation, including an agreement by the Belarusian Development Bank to finance the supply of more than 700 units of unspecified equipment to Nicaragua.
ISW noted that these agreements could have been signed as part of Russian schemes that use Belarus to help the Russian Federation circumvent Western sanctions.
