Belarus trading technology with number of countries in exchange for goods under sanctions — ISW

Belarus signs trade contracts and supplies technology and equipment to a number of countries in exchange for goods that are under sanctions and that it or russia cannot buy directly.

This is stated in the report of the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

We are talking about Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba. Thus, the Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko recently signed bilateral economic and trade agreements with these countries.

From July 14 to 16, Golovchenko was in Venezuela and met with Venezuelan officials, including the country's president Nicolás Maduro. The Belarusian prime minister said that his visit is aimed at discussing trade and the economic sphere.

After that, the prime minister went to Cuba, where he signed contracts for "millions of dollars" to supply Cuba with unspecified Belarusian goods in exchange for Cuban exports to Belarus.

And then — to Nicaragua, where he signed contracts worth USD 85 million. They are reportedly aimed at bilateral economic cooperation, including an agreement by the Belarusian Development Bank to finance the supply of more than 700 units of unspecified equipment to Nicaragua.

Analysts suggest that schemes developed by russia to circumvent sanctions may work through these countries.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, the British government updated the sanctions list, adding to it eleven tankers transporting russian oil.

After the latest package of U.S. sanctions, it has become very difficult or even impossible to make direct payments from China to the aggressor state of russia, even using yuan.