{"id":45531,"date":"2023-01-29T20:53:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T17:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/lukasenka-to-visit-zimbabwe\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"lukasenka-to-visit-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/45531\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0141uka\u0161enka to visit Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>January 29, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Zimbabwean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade reports that Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka will visit Zimbabwe from January 30 to February 1. The Belarusian leader and Zimbabwe\u2019s Emmerson Mnangagwa are expected to conduct negotiations.<\/p>\n<p> The report reads that the two countries maintain close political and economic ties, cooperating on mining, agriculture and disaster risk management. The two leaders would launch the second phase of an agricultural mechanization program and sign several deals.<\/p>\n<p> The Zimbabwean foreign ministry calls the visit historic because \u0141uka\u0161enka has never visited the country in Southeast Africa in the course of his rule. In 2015, then-Vice President Mnangagwa met with \u0141uka\u0161enka in Minsk. As head of state, he visited Belarus four years later. Belarus opened an embassy in Zimbabwe on July 11, 2022.<\/p>\n<p> Ahead of the visit, <span>NewZimbabwe.com<\/span> wrote about controversies surrounding Belarusian-Zimbabwean cooperation. One involved the Zimbabwean government\u2019s purchase of fire engines \u201cfor local authorities despite the fact that the councils never asked for them,\u201d it wrote. Mnangagwa\u2019s government also reportedly \u201chandpicked Belarusian companies believed to be his allies to buy diamonds.\u201d The website also mentioned the purchase of supposedly Belarusian buses that sparked controversy in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 29, BPN. Zimbabwean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade reports that Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka will visit Zimbabwe from January 30 to February 1. The Belarusian leader and Zimbabwe\u2019s Emmerson Mnangagwa are expected to conduct negotiations. The report reads that the two countries maintain close political and economic ties, cooperating on mining, agriculture and disaster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-45531","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u0141uka\u0161enka to visit Zimbabwe | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 29, BPN. 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