Events

Belarus to introduce visa waiver for fans coming for 2nd CIS Games
Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has upheld the proposal of the Sports and Tourism Ministry and other interested bodies to introduce a visa waiver for fans coming for the 2nd CIS Games...

Belarus hosts almost 600,000 visa-waiver travelers
A total of 599,699 citizens of the neighboring EU states took advantage of the program to visit Belarus, including 387,064 citizens of Lithuania, 40,258 non-citizens and 131,437 citizens of Latvia, and 40,940 Polish citizens...

Lukashenko talks to Putin, Nazarbayev over phone
Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko talked to President of Russia Vladimir Putin and the first president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. They discussed the international situation, the situation in the region and Belarusian-Kazakh relations...

Lukashenko helps resolve Wagner’s situation. Details of intense negotiation day
The Belarusian head of state had an intense Saturday, which included conferences with officers of defense, security, and law enforcement agencies, contacts with President of Russia Vladimir Putin, and negotiations with Yevgeny Prigozhin. The negotiations lasted for an entire day and ways to defuse the situation were finally found...

Belarus admits almost 28,000 Ukrainian citizens since 1 January 2023
According to the committee, 20,246 citizens of Ukraine came to Belarus via Poland, 5,937 via Lithuania and 1,693 via Latvia...

CIS urged to promote cooperation with friendly integration associations
Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Petrishenko said at a web-based meeting of the CIS Economic Council...

Belarusian ambassador meets with head of Russian Presidential Executive Office
The parties exchanged views on a wide range of topics of Belarusian-Russian cooperation and integration cooperation, with a focus on specific issues on the domestic and foreign policy agenda...

Opinion: Belarus is against the use of human rights topic as a tool of pressure, sanctions
The 53rd session of the UN Human Rights Council began its work in Geneva on 20 June. The session will be running for almost a month. An interactive discussion of the annual report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights took place on the first day of the session. More than 120 states participated in the discussion...

Lukashenko calls for greater integration in CSTO
We need closer integration in the CSTO, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with the ministers of foreign affairs of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Minsk on 20 June...

Belarusian Paralympic athletes call to stop discrimination based on nationality
Vladislav Hryb at the session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities stressed that for every Paralympic athlete, sport is a story of overcoming a difficult fate. It allows demonstrating the fortitude of people who find themselves unbroken in a difficult life situation...

Kochanova: Belarus-Mexico cooperation has great prospects
Chairwoman of the Council of the Republic Natalya Kochanova said during a meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Mexican States to the Russian Federation and concurrently to the Republic of Belarus Eduardo Villegas Mejias...

Parliament speaker: Belarus seeks to develop friendly relations with Latin American countries
Belarusian MPs stand for the development of friendly relations with Latin American countries, Chairman of the House of Representatives Vladimir Andreichenko said during a meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Mexican States to the Russian Federation and concurrently the Republic of Belarus Eduardo Villegas Mejias...

Bill on people’s militia passes second reading in Belarus
The document lays out legal grounds for Belarus’ citizens, foreign nationals and stateless persons permanently residing in the country to voluntarily participate in ensuring the observance of martial law in Belarus...

Lavrov to attend CSTO Ministerial Council meeting in Minsk
"It is expected that a number of joint documents will be approved following the meeting," Maria Zakharova added...

Lukashenko confident in Minsk-Beijing future fruitful contacts
Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed: "I highly appreciate our friendly and trusting relations. I am sincerely glad that for many years we have been united by a common aspiration to build a fair multipolar world order and to create conditions for comprehensive development of both countries"...

Ambassadors of Tajikistan, Ecuador, Panama, Mauritania presents copies of credentials in Minsk
"The parties exchanged views on the state and prospects for the development of Belarusian-Tajik relations, discussed a wide range of issues on the bilateral agenda"...

Belarus, Ghana discuss prospects for cooperation in agriculture, healthcare
Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Aleinik received the copy of the credentials of non-resident Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Ghana to the Republic of Belarus Oheneba Lesley Akua Opoku-Ware...

Belarus stands for cooperation with western neighbors against illegal migration
The parties discussed a wide range of cooperation issues and separately dwelt on the fight against human trafficking. An agreement was reached on further interaction on anti-trafficking issues...

Thailand ambassador presents copy of credentials in Minsk
The parties discussed the current state and ways of promoting the Belarusian-Thai relations, including cooperation in trade and tourism, and between the foreign ministries of the two countries...

Belarusian FM receives copy of credentials from Mexican ambassador
"The parties discussed the current state and prospects for the development of the Belarusian-Mexican dialogue across a wide range of issues, including political and inter-parliamentary cooperation, reaffirmed mutual interest in updating the bilateral agenda and filling it with a qualitatively new content"...