MINSK, 2 December (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has arrived in the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria on an official visit. It is the first top-level visit in the history of relations between the two countries, BelTA has learned.
The president was welcomed on Algerian soil by President of the Council of the Nation of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria Azouz Nasri.
The Belarusian head of state Aleksandr Lukashenko and Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune will hold negotiations in a narrow format and an expanded one while focusing on stepping up trade and economic cooperation and implementing mutually beneficial bilateral projects. Plans have been made to discuss prospects of deliveries of machines, vehicles, and equipment, prospects of manufacturing cooperation, interaction in agribusiness, healthcare, education, and humanitarian affairs as a whole.
As a result of the negotiations of the national leaders and the visit as a whole bilateral documents will be signed on advancing cooperation in various fields.
Algeria is the fourth state the president is visiting as part of a major business trip to various countries. Aleksandr Lukashenko came to Algeria from Oman where he had been on a working visit. Prior to Oman the Belarusian leader had visited Myanmar and Kyrgyzstan.
A bilateral business forum was held prior to Aleksandr Lukashenko’s visit to Algeria. The forum gathered over 100 representatives of ministries, enterprises, and organizations from both sides. Multiple meetings and negotiations were held at various levels.
While talking to reporters in Algeria, Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxim Ryzhenkov stated that he had great expectations regarding the upcoming visit and prospects of cooperation looked very serious. Not only opportunities for expanding cooperation in trade and in deliveries of goods were being discussed but also joint manufacturing of products, including with a focus on markets of other African countries. Algeria’s territory can become yet another hub for promoting Belarusian goods on this continent.
Belarus-Algeria diplomatic relations were established in October 1995. The heads of state met during the UN Millennium Summit in New York in September 2000 and during the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Havana in September 2006.
Belarusian ministers of foreign affairs visited Algeria in 2003, 2004, and 2025.
The Algerian minister of foreign affairs came to Belarus on a working visit in February 2018. During the visit meetings were organized with the president of the country and with the head of the upper chamber of the Belarusian parliament. Back then Aleksandr Lukashenko mentioned it was necessary to give a serious impulse to the advancement of Belarus-Algeria relations and to at least restore the previous level of cooperation. “If you want it and help us with it, we are ready to use our technologies to work in the manufacturing sector and in agriculture. And not simply sell products to you but jointly set up appropriate facilities in Algeria’s territory together with you,” the Belarusian leader assured.
In 2024 Belarus-Algeria trade was slightly above $49 million, with Belarus’ export accounting for virtually the entire figure.
In February 2018 an agreement was signed on setting up a Belarusian-Algerian commission on cooperation in trade, economy, science, and technology. It came into force in 2019. The first session took place in Minsk in April 2025.
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