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MOSCOW, 24 April (BelTA) – Eight Belarusian specialists have returned home from Kazakhstan thanks to the help of Belarusian diplomats. The employees of a Belarusian enterprise were in Kazakhstan on a business trip and got stranded there due to anti-coronavirus measures introduced in some countries, BelTA learned from Press Secretary of the Belarusian Embassy in Russia Oleg Mazuro.
“The Borisov-based fire-fighting and special-purposes equipment manufacturer Pozhsnab won the tender to sign a public-private partnership contract on the project to update the fleet of fire-fighting vehicles of the city of Shymkent,” the diplomat said. “The first 25 vehicles were shipped to Kazakhstan in March. After delivering the batch, the Belarusian specialists planned to catch the Almaty-Minsk flight on 2 April. However, since all regular flights between Kazakhstan and Belarus had been suspended, the Belarusians had to quarantine for two-weeks in Shymkent. Moreover, due to the measures imposed in Russia to curb the spread of the virus, the Belarusian nationals could not leave Kazakhstan by ground transport as well,” Oleg Mazuro added.
The Belarusian, Kazakh, and Russian parties worked out a way to transit the Belarusians from the Kazakh-Russian border to the Russian-Belarusian border by the transport of the Belarusian embassy. They were accompanied by representatives of the Belarusian Embassy in Russia – heads of the offices of the embassy in Ufa, Kazan, and Nizhny Novgorod. “On 24 April, all eight Belarusian citizens arrived home,” Oleg Mazuro noted.
