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Prized Billion Trade With Uzbekistan Turned Into Ridiculous 65 Million

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Prized Billion Trade With Uzbekistan Turned Into Ridiculous 65 Million

Despite the failure of trade and economic cooperation between Minsk and Samarkand, Lukashenka is optimistic.

– We need to step up our relations, economic cooperation. I am convinced that in the near future, 1-3 years, we will definitely boost our bilateral trade. There is a huge potential. We need you, you need our economy, – Aliaksandr Lukashenka said in Samarkand, meeting with Acting Uzbek President, Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

Let us recall what plans Belarusian authorities were making eight years ago, to understand to what extent “ridiculous” the trade turnover between the two countries has become, gazetaby.com writes.

– Belarus and Uzbekistan should achieve a turnover amounting to a billion – Andrei Kabiakou, who was the Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus, stated in June, 2008.

His optimism was reinforced by concrete figures: a year before the trade turnover between the countries had amounted to about $ 60 million, and it came close to $ 115 million at the time of the ambitious statement.

However, after eight years the dreams about the prized billion turned into “ridiculous” 65 million as of year-end 2015.

But when you consider the fact that relationships with most of the countries, consistently visited by the dictator, develop according to this scenario, there is nothing to laugh about.

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