Belarus invites Latin American countries to mutually beneficial cooperation -

March 24, Minsk /BelTA/. Belarus invites Latin American countries to mutually beneficial cooperation. This was stated by President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko in an interview with the Argentine newspaper Diario La Nacion, excerpts of which were shown by ONT channel, BelTA correspondent reports. "We can have good relations with any president of the Latin American continent. We are very peaceful, predictable, decent people, and when we talk - whether with representatives of Latin America, or Asia, or Africa - it doesn't matter which country - we always proceed from the fact that we should not only take, earn somewhere, but we must definitely give something to this people," said Alexander Lukashenko. Speaking about cooperation with Venezuela, the President noted that literally in three years, trade with this country has increased several dozen times, oil and gas fields are being developed, residential settlements and cities, collective farms are being built, and trade is developing in all directions. In addition to supplying Belarusian products to this market, enterprises similar to Belarusian ones are being created in Venezuela. Touching upon cooperation in the oil and gas sector, Alexander Lukashenko said that Belarus offers Venezuelans to come to Belarus and process oil themselves at Belarusian oil refineries, and then sell it in Europe. "In the future, we are also planning the privatization of our enterprises, including oil refineries, with Venezuelan capital," the President noted. The Argentine journalist was also interested in Belarus's domestic political life, economy, the country's foreign policy, and the republic's tourism opportunities. The President of Belarus invited the correspondent to visit Belarus, to see for himself that it is "the most beautiful, safest country, where the kindest people live," and presented him with two colorful albums telling about the country and the products of Belarusian enterprises. -0-