* Bolivia’s state news media
Cambio announced that the Bolivian and Turkish governments have agreed to aim for US$500m in annual bilateral foreign trade, following a meeting between the two presidents in the Turkish capital of Ankara. Turkey’s President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that both countries must invest and promote cooperation in sectors such as geothermic or solar energy, in order to
“benefit both sides”. The two governments could also be working together on new strategies for the industrialisation of lithium. Bolivia’s President
Evo Morales plans to build 41 plants for a new state-owned lithium industry, most of which will be in Potosí department.
“We have begun the industrialisation of lithium”,
Cambio reports President
Morales as saying,
“and the President of Turkey is very keen to be part of this great industry”. In addition, President
Morales revealed that the Turkish government would be donating 18 quinoa processing machines to drive up the export of the Andean grain.
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