Events

Belarusian FM completes visit to Saudi Arabia
The talks with Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia Bandar bin Ibrahim AlKhorayef highlighted the opportunities for industrial cooperation, supplies of Belarusian machinery, and prospects for joint projects in third countries...

Belarus, Nicaragua waive visas for each other's citizens
The rules provide for staying in both Nicaragua and Belarus for up to 90 days during a year without a visa...

Belarus, Saudi Arabia look to add impetus to bilateral relations
The parties praised the renewed dynamics of political, economic and humanitarian ties between Belarus and Saudi Arabia, and the intensification of contacts between the business community of the two countries...

Belarus, Azerbaijan discuss organization of forthcoming high-level, top-level visits
Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Aleinik accepted credentials from new Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Azerbaijan to Belarus Maharram Aliyev on 5 January...

Belarus takes in 648 Ukrainian citizens since 1 January 2024
All in all, since 24 February 2022, 147,138 Ukrainian nationals have arrived in our country from the Ukrainian territory...

Belarus’ FM to pay official visit to Saudi Arabia
“Sergei Aleinik will hold full-format talks with his Saudi counterpart, Minister of Foreign Affairs H.H. Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed...

Lukashenko approves updated concept of state personnel policy
The document describes the functions and role of all its subjects, from the President and the Belarusian People's Congress to organizations of all forms of ownership, in solving the problems of the state personnel policy...

Lukashenko makes personnel decisions
The head of state appointed: Yuri Chebotar as Economy Minister...

Belarus to step up cooperation in digitalization with Vietnam, Laos
Minister of Communications and Informatization Konstantin Shulgan met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar Vladimir Borovikov...

Lukashenko amends law “On the President of the Republic of Belarus”
In line with the document, the president of Belarus runs the public administration system and is a delegate of the All-Belarus People’s Congress...

Belarus to open consulate general in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don by 1 July
The document also provides for the closure of the branch of the Belarusian Embassy in Rostov-on-Don no later than 1 July 2024...

Belarus accedes to 11 SCO treaties
In particular, Belarus has acceded to the memorandum between the governments of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on the main goals and areas of regional economic cooperation and the launch of the process of creating favorable conditions in trade and investment...

Over 3,000 EU residents visit Belarus visa-free since 29 December
Since the start of the visa-waiver initiative, 803,623 foreigners have visited Belarus visa-free...

Belarus named CIS leader in sustainable development
Belarus tanks in the group of countries with a high level of human development, ranking 60th among 191 countries in the human development index...

Lukashenko extends Liberation Day greetings to Cuba
The head of state expressed hope that the intensification of bilateral ties between Minsk and Havana would yield concrete results in the form of stable and constructive development of both countries and growth of wellbeing of their people...

Belarus’ ambassador: Dialogue with the EU will resume
Answering the journalist’s questions, the diplomat commented on Belarus’ relations with the European Union countries and explained the close interaction with Russia, which is an ally and the most important partner for our country...

Golovchenko presents state awards for professional distinction
More than 50 people received state awards. “These are people who have demonstrated exceptional hard work and responsibility. This is what they have in common. Hard work is at the core of the development of any society. And ours, of course, is no exception,” the prime minister noted...

Belarus to open embassy in Equatorial Guinea by 1 August 2024
This is stipulated by the Council of Ministers' Resolution No. 930 of 22 December. The document has been published on the national legal internet portal...

Over 411,000 foreigners use visa-waiver to visit Belarus since year-start
Some 796,346 people from the neighboring EU countries have visited Belarus since the launch of the visa-waiver program, including 492,896 citizens of Lithuania, 55,870 non-citizens and 183,836 citizens of Latvia, and 63,744 Polish citizens...

Declaration on EAEU development until 2030 and 2045 passed at St Petersburg summit
All in all, the parties worked through more than two dozen different issues...