The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo continues to “strengthen” its ties of friendship with the Government of Belarus, a faithful ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ortega’s wife, vice president and spokesperson for the regime, reported in her daily litany in her propaganda media that “they are hiring equipment for agriculture.”
Murillo’s announcement comes after the meeting of the Belarusian ambassador to Russia, Dmitri Krutói, and the regime’s ambassador to the Russian Federation concurrent to Belarus, Alba Azucena Torres Mejía. In that meeting, held at the United Nations Organization (UN), the issues of Belarusian-Nicaraguan cooperation were discussed and a possible “increase” in the trade between the two nations was discussed.
According to BelTA, the Belarusian news agency, the ambassadors “noted the significant unrealized potential in the trade and economic sphere… Among the most promising areas, Dmitri Krutoy singled out supplies of Belarusian machinery, including tractors, trucks, agricultural and construction equipment.” road construction. He highlighted the successful Belarusian experience in the application of domestic advanced technologies in agriculture ».
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In 2021, Nicaragua and Belarus signed a memorandum of understanding for the creation of a mixed commission for economic and commercial cooperation. The then Foreign Minister of the European country, Vladimir Makéi, stressed that the exchanges between the two countries would be in supplies of Belarusian passenger and cargo vehicles to Nicaragua, infrastructure projects, and cooperation in agricultural and food matters.
Belarus and Nicaragua have a series of financial agreements that allow the Central American country to import Belarusian products. The agreements are on public transport, the productive agricultural sector, infrastructure and construction machinery.
In November of last year, a Nicaraguan delegation headed by the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Óscar Mojica, visited the company “Amkodor” in Belarus, a distributor of machinery for construction and agriculture. “In the talks, the parties discussed the prospects for cooperation in the supply of Amkodor equipment to Nicaragua,” reports a BelTA note on its website.
Belarus has been the target of sanctions by the European Union and the United States after expressing its full support for Russia in the war against Ukraine. Belarusian President Alexandr Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994 without interruption, has declared himself a “victim” of international restrictions, as has his Nicaraguan counterpart Daniel Ortega.
Belarus swore “loyalty” to Ortega
In October 2021, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada met with his Belarusian counterpart, Vladimir Makéi, who stressed the importance of loyalty between two partners who are subject to Western sanctions.
“We are two small countries, we do not have great geopolitical claims and ambitions, so it is very important to be mutually loyal, to be reliable partners for each other,” Makéi said, according to the official Belarusian news agency.
The Belarusian Foreign Minister considered Nicaragua an important partner with a successful history of cooperation. “Our interests totally coincide. We want our peoples to live in peace and harmony, so that our States live in peace and that no one interferes in our development the way they want to do it”, he stressed.
