President Alexandr Lukashenko has renewed the mechanism for receiving medicines from Cuba for two years in exchange for agricultural and automotive equipment, Cuban Ambassador to Belarus Santiago Pérez said on Wednesday.

Minsk.- According to the Cuban diplomat, the decree signed by the president aims to “purchase Cuban medicines in exchange for agricultural and automotive equipment and other goods of national production,” Prensa Latina announced.

The Belarusian Government stated that the document aimed to maintain cooperation between Belarus and Cuba.

Earlier, Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said that Belarusian producers of agricultural, cargo, passenger, municipal, and other equipment are ready to meet all of Cuba’s needs despite the sanctions imposed by the United States against both countries. (PL)