Belarusian ambassador comments on effort to restore bilateral trade with Venezuela

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Venezuela Andrei Molchan spoke about the effort to restore bilateral trade on the air of the ONT TV channel on 3 December, BelTA has learned. According to Ambassador Andrei Molchan, a significant infrastructure of Belarusian industrial, machine-building, and agricultural potential has been built in Venezuela. The leaders of the two countries came to an understanding that Venezuela needs many of Belarusian developments, but the northern neighbor of Venezuela was not delighted with the fact that Hugo Chavez, and then Nicolas Maduro, pursued an independent, sovereign policy.

«There came problems on the part of Washington. Serious financial, economic and political sanctions were imposed, which brought the country's economy into a rather crisis situation. The flow of funds to the state budget stopped.

Naturally, in the absence of these funds, the financing of projects stopped. In the current circumstances, when a lot of Western restrictions and sanctions have been imposed on the Venezuelan government, state-owned enterprises and organizations, the embassy is working to find solvent partners among private businesses and private companies. Here the layer of such companies is quite impressive.

By the end of this year, we will have more or less working options that will allow us to restore bilateral trade. But it took time,» According to him, Venezuela has a colossal potential in all areas, significant deposits of oil and other important resources, and has access to the sea. «The country has a warm regard for Belarus.