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Industrial cooperation viewed as promising line in Belarus-Tajikistan interaction
“Cooperation in the agricultural sector is steadily expanding. The parties consider ways to widen collaboration in crop production and cattle breeding, including breeding stock supplies,” the minister said...

Call for new spheres, forms of cooperation to step up Belarus-Latvia trade
Martins Virsis expressed interest in expanding and deepening the existing ties. He mentioned tourism as a promising area. The diplomat was particularly interested in cooperation in healthcare tourism and industrial tourism...

Belarusian business operation terms in spotlight in Vienna
Austrian businessmen were informed about terms of financing and insuring investment projects, the establishment of daughter enterprises in Belarus, investment operations in free economic zones, the China-Belarus industrial park Great Stone, the Hi-Tech Park as well as small and medium towns...

Opinion: The information center in Ostrovets helps fill gaps in knowledge about nuclear energy
A European Commission delegation led by Gerassimos Thomas went on a tour of the information center. Members of the delegation were interested in matters relating to safety, personnel training, radioactive waste handling, and storage of fresh and spent nuclear fuel...

Independent assessment: Belarusian banking sector is resistant to assumed risks
The procedure was applied to nine large banks accounting for 92% of the total banking assets in the country. The procedure was executed by Belarusian offices of such authoritative international audit agencies as KPMG, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and PKF (OOO FBK-Bel)...

Minsk to host ICONO/LAT 2016 conference on 26-30 September
The ICONO/LAT 2016 conference organized by the NASB jointly with the Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow State University will bring together over 450 academics from Belarus, Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Lithuania, Estonia, Switzerland, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Mexico, China and Japan...

IMF mission to discuss new loan program with Belarus
“We will discuss the program with Belarusian government authorities next week. Our main goal is to ensure progress in this process,” Peter Dohlman said...

South Korea's President welcomes IT cooperation with Belarus
Park Geun-hye said she greatly appreciates the Belarusian-South Korean IT projects and outlined the prospects for the expansion of mutual trade and investments, taking into account the capacities of the Eurasian Economic Union...

Bel Huawei Technologies signs memorandum with Education, IT Ministries of Belarus
During the signing ceremony, Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Kalinin said that the document will provide Belarusian students with another opportunity to contribute to the development of high technology...

Belarus, Angola seek to intensify trade, economic ties
The parties stressed mutual eagerness to intensify Belarusian-Angolan ties in politics, trade and economy...

Belarus, U.S. discuss cooperation in military sphere
Belarus’ Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei and U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Carpenter met in New York to discuss the ways of establishing cooperation between the two counties in the military sphere...

IAEA to examine emergency readiness, operation safety of Belarusian nuclear power plant in 2017-2018
Belarus’ representative informed those present about the nuclear safety events the country had carried out or intended to carry out together with the IAEA. It was noted that an IAEA mission will arrive in Belarus soon to evaluate the regulatory infrastructure...

EC ready to provide additional assistance to Gosatomnadzor in BelNPP project
Gerassimos Thomas, Deputy Director General in the Directorate-General for Energy at the European Commission, told media...

Favorable conditions for selling merchandise promised to Belarusian farmers
The head of state underlined that agrarians should have every opportunity to sell their products, thus satisfying the nation’s demand. It should be done without any red-tape by organizing fairs and bazaars...

Implementation of Belarus-Tatarstan joint projects discussed
Matters concerning further mutually beneficial cooperation between Belarus and Tatarstan within the framework of Russian-Belarusian relations were discussed during the meeting of President of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Russia Igor Petrishenko in Kazan...

South Africa’s Free State to study Belarusian food processing practices
“Agriculture is the linchpin of the economy of our province. We are ready to discuss a wide range of issues regarding our cooperation in this sector. First of all, we are interested in Belarusian technologies and food processing practices,” Elias Magashule said...

Omani businessmen seek cooperation with Belarusian mechanical engineering companies
"First economy class MAZ buses have already been shipped to this country. An agreement has also been reached to supply a batch of Amkodor road-building equipment to Oman. Today the Omani delegation will hold negotiations with BelAZ and several other enterprises,” Vladimir Ulakhovich said...

Technology transfer viewed as promising area of cooperation between Belarus, Germany’s Saxony
“Today there are many promising cooperation avenues. Belarus has well-developed agriculture. This gives reason to think that we can have some points of contact in this sector", Oliver Wehner said...

Belarusian data processing center named best in CIS
Out of more than two dozen candidates, the professional jury chose the Belarusian project as the best implemented solution related to the establishment of a data processing center in Russia and other countries of the CIS. The data processing center of beCloud was assessed according to several major criteria, such as design and construction, the development of IT infrastructure...

Belarus set to partake in infrastructure projects in Pakistan's Punjab
The matter was discussed at a meeting between Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Pakistan Andrei Yermolovich and Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif...