Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tariq Al Said has proposed to create a hub of Belarusian goods in the country, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko told the media in Muscat on 16 December, BelTA learned. 

“Sultan proposed strategic areas of cooperation. It is very important for us to define a point, a port, or maybe we will look at something else, through which our technologies, which are needed in Oman, will come. Therefore, we will use Belarusian technologies to create joint ventures here and move west, east, north from here, from the Indian Ocean, selling our goods,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said. “Sultan made a very good proposal to create a hub here, a center of Belarusian goods. I told him honestly yesterday that we learned to produce a lot of things but are yet to learn to trade. Meanwhile, Omani people have been involved in commerce since ancient times. They promised to help us in this respect. In short, no topics were off limit. Oman has a huge interest in Belarus. We were probably not very active here before.”

"We will be willing to set up joint ventures here, expand production facilities and use this trade route together. This applies to a very large range of commodities. We are not discussing this publicly for certain reasons," the president said.

Aleksandr Lukashenko recalled that he already visited Oman 17 years ago. Then he met with Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, who is currently the Sultan of Oman. "He welcomed and accompanied me then. So we have already known each other. It was easy for us to negotiate," the head of state said.

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