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Lukashenko announces new phase in relations with Oman

MINSK, 6 October (BelTA) - Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko announced the start of a new phase in bilateral relations with Oman during the meeting with Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said of Oman in Minsk on 6 October, BelTA has learned.

“In December 2024 in Muscat, we agreed to jointly open a new chapter in our relations and to begin counting their new stage from your first official visit to Minsk. A lot has been done in the run-up to this event. A comprehensive roadmap for cooperation has been prepared to include specific tasks in food security, industry, tourism, transport and logistics, and investments,” the Belarusian president said.

According to him, the establishment of the Joint Committee on Cooperation and Investment has provided stability to the interaction and confidence in achieving the set goals. Its high-level curator from the Omani side is Crown Prince, Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth Theyazin bin Haitham Al Said. “With his personal involvement, and following the guidelines set by the two of us, the governments and business communities have made significant progress in a number of areas,” Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed.

“Thanks to the joint decisions to ease visa requirements and launch direct air services starting in February 2025, over 1,700 Belarusians have already visited your wonderful country. We are looking forward to welcoming Omani guests. The visit of Oman’s Minister of Health to Belarus demonstrated the potential for medical tourism, as well as for educational and cultural exchanges,” the head of state said.

He stressed that the agreement to waive visas for holders of ordinary passports, which will be signed during this visit, will bring Belarus and Oman even closer together and contribute to the implementation of joint projects.

“In Muscat [during Aleksandr Lukashenko’s visit to Oman in December 2024] you and I said that initially it is necessary to launch 2-3 joint projects and move forward. One can say that this task is being accomplished by our private sector. With our projects in Oman we are reinforcing food security of not only Oman but your entire region,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said. “Omani investments in the sphere of wood processing will help more efficiently use Belarus’ natural riches. Moreover, intensive contacts have allowed forming a serious pool of additional projects.”

The president offered gratitude for interest in organizing joint assembly enterprises and sales of MAZ and Amkodor vehicles and machines. He stated that Belarusian enterprises are ready to transition cooperation with the partners chosen by the Omani side into the practical dimension.

“As a result, we intend to reach the point of setting up a good and long-term supporting point in Oman – a hub for promoting Belarusian products in the region of the Persian Gulf and East Africa,” the Belarus president said.

Prospects for interaction in pharmaceutics are also available: the first few contracts have been signed on shipping Belarusian medications to Oman. The medications are now going through the certification process.

Taking into account the world’s best practices, we are now building a new National History Museum of Belarus. We would be grateful for the advice of the, one might say, most Belarusian Omani – the secretary general of the National Museum of Oman,” the head of state said.

Secretary General of the museum Jamal Al-Moosawi speaks Russian, and his mother is a native Belarusian. During the visit of the Belarusian president to Oman in December 2024, he gave Aleksandr Lukashenko a tour of the National Museum of Oman and expressed his readiness to share experience for the construction of the museum in Minsk. 

The document notes that the talks were held in an atmosphere of trust, friendship, and mutual understanding. The parties affirmed the commitment to working jointly to strengthen and developing Belarusian-Omani cooperation and exchanged views on a number of international and regional issues of mutual interest.

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