“We have done a lot over the years. At 90% we traded in Russia. Today, 47%, if you take export at all. That is, we have gone to other markets. This is the greatest conquest. The market is very crowded, the competition is frantic, ”BelTA quotes Lukashenko.

He noted that Minsk will gradually move to the export formula, when one third of the supplies will fall to Russia and the markets of the EAEU, the European Union, as well as countries of the far arc.

“We will come to this and will come in the new five-year period,” he said.

Earlier, Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko, during a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, said that the reason for the drop in oil exports from Russia to Belarus was the foreign economic situation.