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President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko expects that the Belarusians will increase the production of this raw material on their territory to 3-3.5 million tons per year through the development of new oil fields, the presidential press service said on Monday.

“I am very interested and worried about the problem of the Pripyat trough. My gut feeling is that we have oil there, which we still don’t see,” the president said, receiving the report from the General Director of PA “Belorusneft” Alexander Lyakhov. I am ready to participate directly in this, but so that we increase oil production during our lifetime, at least up to 3-3.5 million tons (currently, the country produces about 1.6 million tons of its oil per year approx. – TASS) “.

According to Lukashenko, this is a solution to the problem for the country. “We will forget about any dependence. And if we also build one nuclear power plant, the country will be provided with everything necessary, especially energy. Although we still need to swallow energy from this nuclear power plant. But the prospect behind this is for electric vehicles,” the president said. to you that you are engaged in these gas stations – electro”.