Belarussian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said during a meeting on African issues in Minsk on Oct. 30 that his country has supplied over 5,000 units of agricultural and specialized equipment to Nigeria as part of expanding cooperation with the country, and plans are being developed to establish assembly plants, as the BelTA state news agency reported.
At the meeting, Lukashenko noted the particular importance of the African region for Belarus. “For Belarus, Africa is like China 30 years ago, namely a market of the future where we must actively pursue and carve out niches. It is there that we have the potential to diversify exports for key sectors of our economy, such as agriculture, mechanical engineering, fertilizer production, and others,” Lukashenko said.
