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ASHGABAT, 10 December (BelTA) – Belarus is ready to considerably expand the range of products supplied to Turkmenistan. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko made the statement during expanded-participation negotiations with Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on 10 December, BelTA has learned.

Belarusian buses, various kinds of harvesters and other agricultural machines are being tested in Turkmenistan now. It will allow adapting them to climatic and operational conditions.

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov noted that Turkmenistan could use freight wagons, railway equipment, and elevators. Alexander Lukashenko said he believes that even the future mining and processing factory would need hundreds or even several thousands of wagons for transporting potash fertilizers. “We should offer these options to Turkmenistan today,” he stressed. The Belarus government was instructed to work on these cooperation variants and other ones.

Alexander Lukashenko said he believes that there is a broad range of Belarus-Turkmenistan cooperation ways in agribusiness. The Belarusian side should pay attention not only to shipments of tractors and agricultural machines but the provision of technologies, too. “Turkmenistan may use some Belarusian practices or maybe Belarus could learn something from Turkmenistan,” noted Alexander Lukashenko.

The Belarusian head of state noted that the construction of the potash mining and processing factory in the town of Garlyk remains the most important area of joint work. He added that less than a year was left till the factory is commissioned. The most difficult periods of the project are already over: the mines were flooded and frozen. “In the near future we are going to mine the potash that the region and Turkmenistan need so much. We will rejoice at the factory’s launch,” said the Belarusian leader.