Belarus, which has been hit by Western sanctions over its support for Russia’s offensive in Ukraine, said Thursday it will sign a free trade deal with China for services and investment.
China’s Prime Minister Li Qiang was in Belarus to meet President Alexander Lukashenko, following a visit to Moscow where he hailed strengthening ties with Russia and met President Vladimir Putin.
Minsk and Beijing will sign a series of bilateral partnership agreements during his visit, the Belarusian presidency said in a statement on its website.
“One of them can definitely be called historic — an agreement on the creation of a free trade zone for services and investment,” it quoted Lukashenko as saying.
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