“When I met with the President of Russia, we discussed this issue a lot (deliveries of Belarusian goods through the ports of the Leningrad region. -
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), I said that we can cooperate with the Leningrad people and build our own pier, our own port there,” RIA Novosti quotes Lukashenko.
As the Belarusian president said, Putin "got excited about this issue."
“And I even offered him a financial solution: everything that we save at the nuclear power plant, which is being built at the expense of a loan from Russia, we are ready to invest in the port, take a loan from the savings and invest in the construction of a terminal there.
We can implement a joint project with you, ”Lukashenka added.
Earlier, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov explained that with the help of a loan to Belarus, Russia will support, among other things, its economy.
Siluanov also noted that for Russia Belarus is a reliable borrower, all loans were returned on time.