BelAZ Wants To Cooperate With Taliban

Negotiations have already taken place in Afghanistan.

The Afghan Ministry of Mines and Petroleum reported that representatives of the Belarusian manufacturer of dump trucks BelAZ met with acting head of the agency Hedayatullah Badri on September 10. The parties agreed to go ‘towards legal co-operation and creation of necessary conditions.’

The Afghan official met with BelAZ representatives, who expressed ‘gratitude to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan for providing a favourable investment environment and expressed interest in investing in joint mining projects with the Islamic Emirate’.

The BelAZ representatives spoke about mining equipment and the ‘establishment of a processing plant’, and promised to co-operate in the training and professional development of engineers.

Badri, on the other hand, ‘welcomed their interest in investing in Afghanistan.’

‘In order to encourage and attract domestic and foreign investors, the Ministry of Mine and Petroleum is ready for legal co-operation and creation of necessary conditions,’ the Afghan ministry said.

The model of BelAZ 75131 in a scale of 1:150 - apparently a gift to the Afghan side - was on the table during the conversation.

We remind you that in April 2024, then deputy head of the Ministry of Transport of Belarus Valery Verenich (now - head of the Belarusian Railways) said that ‘Belarus, as the western point of the transport corridor passing through Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and further - Afghanistan and Pakistan, has its own freight potential, which will be in demand in the transport corridor’. Before that, three years ago, even before the Taliban took Kabul, the business forum in Minsk discussed ‘prospects for expanding trade and economic cooperation between Belarus, Tajikistan and Afghanistan’.

Belarusian dump trucks of the BelAZ-540 family were supplied to Afghanistan back in the 1970s.

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