{"id":74218,"date":"2024-03-20T12:42:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T09:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/74218\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"belarusian-envoy-in-serbia-seeks-to-boost-ties","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/74218\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian envoy in Serbia seeks to boost ties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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March 20, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Belarusian Ambassador to Serbia Siarhiej Malino\u016dski discussed ties between Minsk and Belgrade with Tamara Rastovac Siamashvili, Serbia’s acting assistant minister for bilateral cooperation, the Belarusian foreign ministry’s press office reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few weeks ago, Malino\u016dski talked about boosting trade and economic cooperation with Jagoda Lazarevi\u0107, a high-ranking Serbian diplomat in charge of economic ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In mid-February, he held talks with Branislav \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107 who heads Serbia’s Institute of International Politics and Economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also met with Serbian State Secretary Goran Aleksic shortly after presenting his credentials to Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 on February 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In November 2023, Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka said Belgrade needed to \u201cfigure out its policy\u201d towards Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf they want to wag their tails, roughly speaking, and support the European-American sanctions against Belarus, that\u2019s their business, let them decide and support [sanctions],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January 2022, the Belarusian government extended a food embargo to Serbia in response to the sanctions. The ban on food imports from \u201cunfriendly countries,\u201d including Serbia, is in force until the end of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2021, Serbia joined the European Union\u2019s sanctions against Minsk and supported sanction packages approved after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serbia is a party to a free trade agreement with the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union, in effect since 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, trade between Belarus and Serbia amounted to $175.4 million with Belarusian exports at $100.4 million and imports at $75.0 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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