Lukashenko has not forgotten about the large-scale anti-Russian project
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, following Ukrainian Prime Minister Alexei Goncharuk, spoke about the implementation of a project to connect waterways from the Black to the Baltic Sea E40, which is considered anti-Russian.
Lukashenko announced this today at the Forum of Regions of Ukraine and Belarus in Zhitomir, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The geographical features of our countries open up good opportunities for the logistics sector. The transit attractiveness of Ukraine and Belarus can be strengthened by river navigation along the Dnieper and Pripyat, its integration into the international waterway E40,” Lukashenko said.
Western experts view the E40 as an important geopolitical project aimed at the European integration of Belarus and even at moving away from the “Russian world.”
Lukashenko discussed the E40 with Petro Poroshenko in 2017, and in 2016 Belarus signed a corresponding memorandum with Poland.
It was assumed that the new trade route would stretch 2000 kilometers along the rivers and canals of Poland, Belarus and Ukraine, connecting the ports of the Baltic and Black Seas.
To fully establish the E40 shipping route “Baltic Sea – Gdansk – Dnieper – Black Sea,” it is necessary to deepen the bottom on the rifts of the Dnieper and Dneprodzerzhinsk reservoirs and increase the dimensions of the waterway in the Kiev Hydroelectric Power Station – Nizhnie Zhary section.
The possibility of implementing the project has been discussed since 2011, but so far all documents are of a declarative nature. In addition, environmentalists are actively opposed to E40.
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