Negotiations with Egypt President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
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The Belarusian side intends to create a product together with Egypt and work together to sell it, including on foreign markets. “It will allow your country to increase export. Such an approach is profitable both for Minsk and Cairo,” the President stressed. He added that Belarus is in favor of free movement of goods and supports Egypt’s proposal to sign an agreement on a free trade zone between Egypt and the Eurasian Economic Union.
The President stressed that Belarus is ready to share its own industrial technologies with Egypt. We’ve agreed we will switch to more up-to-date and versatile economic relations. The work is already in progress. Simple merchandise trade is not what we want today. A project-based approach has been chosen as the main method of our interaction,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
The head of state noted that a well-developed manufacturing sector is one of the strong points of the Belarusian economy and the country is ready to share its own industrial technologies with Egyptian partners. “There are no closed topics. We are ready to carry over to Egypt everything we can. You can count on us in this regard,” the President stressed.
A joint project to make MAZ automobiles was previously launched in Cairo in line with Belarus-Egypt agreements. As many as 72 vehicles were made in 2018. “It is a good beginning. It is important to support manufacturing with orders from the Egyptian government at this stage of the evolution of the enterprise. It is necessary to give it an opportunity to grow larger and put together a portfolio of orders on its own. In order to earn profits steadily, the factory has to make at least 350-400 vehicles per annum,” Aleksandr Lukashenko pointed out. “In turn, we will also provide support to this company. You and I have agreed to do it.”
A multipurpose assembly enterprise in the Egyptian city of Alexandria is increasing the output of MTZ tractors. Assembly lines to make loaders and agricultural machines have been set up in Cairo. “We’ve made specialists of the Egyptian Defense Ministry familiar with Belarusian experience. We’ve transferred individual technologies for creating greenhouse complexes, meat and dairy farms, for making baby food, rye bread, for growing vegetables in greenhouses. If you desire to use Belarusian experience, we are ready to take part in your projects,” Aleksandr Lukashenko emphasized.
He remarked that Egypt is working hard to implement a national program to create greenhouse complexes and needs proper machines and vehicles for it. “We’ve already made a test batch of compact tractors for industrial greenhouses. We could make them together at the joint venture in Alexandria,” the head of state suggested.
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“In addition to stepping up cooperation in traditional spheres of cooperation I suggest carrying out joint R&D projects and implementing projects in the area of high technologies. Our academies of sciences are already working on implementing joint projects. We expect that results of this work will find practical applications in the manufacturing sector and agriculture of Belarus and Egypt soon,” the President said. Besides, Belarus suggested to Egypt projects in the area of digital government, digital transformation, cybersecurity, and video games.
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Egypt is ready to expand cooperation with Belarus in all areas and to continue implementing joint projects, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said. He drew attention to the special nature of relations between the two countries that received an additional boost during the visit of the Belarusian leader to Egypt in 2017. “I want to reiterate that we are very keen to continue developing bilateral relations between our countries in all areas, in all avenues. We are willing to implement all projects that we talked about during your visit and during the current visit,” the Egypt President said.
After the talks the sides signed a package of documents in the presence of the two leaders. Belarus and Egypt signed comprehensive program (roadmap) to guide the advancement of Belarus-Egypt cooperation in 2019-2020. In addition to the roadmap a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the area of youth policy between the Belarusian Education Ministry and the Egyptian Youth and Sports Ministry was signed.
The sides agreed to expand cooperation in such industries as information and communication technologies, space and aviation technologies, nanomaterials, molecular genetics, metal technology, pharmaceutics, optics. It is also planned to step up cooperation in education, In particular, it is essential to raise the inflow of Egyptian students to Belarus, create joint university departments, send Belarusian students to learn the Arabic language at Egyptian universities.
At the meeting with mass media representatives the Belarusian President described the results of the talks with the Egypt President as fruitful. He said that the parties discussed the modern geopolitical situation, noting the similarity of approaches to the key issues on the international agenda. “Our country seeks to strengthen relations with the official Cairo based on the principles of equality, mutual respect and trust. We have built our relations without any preconditions. We have no complaints whatsoever towards our Egyptian friends,” the Belarusian leader noted.
During the talks Aleksandr Lukashenko and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi focused on trade and economic relations, analyzed the execution of instructions and implementation of joint projects. “I can say with confidence that our agreements are being fulfilled. Both the Belarusian and Egyptian agencies are doing their best to implement the plans,” the President said. He stressed that Belarus and Egypt are launching a new phase of cooperation with the current visit of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to Minsk.
Aleksandr Lukashenko added that Belarus is a member of the Eurasian Economic Union. Egypt is a member of many integration associations, first of all, in Africa. “We can offer a lot of things to this region. Therefore, it is essential to join efforts and make joint products for Africa and Eurasia,” the President believes.
In his words, the countries have recently launched a number of joint projects in the manufacture of automobile equipment, tractors, loaders, farming equipment, grain storage facilities, greenhouses. Belarusian and Egyptian scientists cooperate in nanotechnology, molecular genetics, metal technology, space technologies.
“We hope that the results of this joint work will be soon applied in the manufacturing industry, agricultural industry, security in Belarus and Egypt, the President said. “We shared experience of building high-tech greenhouses, production of baby food and rye bread, waste management, manufacture of unmanned aerial vehicles, introduction of e-government.”
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