Events

Lukashenko offers condolences over Christchurch mass shooting victims
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has expressed condolences to Governor General of New Zealand Patsy Reddy in the wake of the mass shooting in Christchurch mosques...

Belarusian President’s Sports Club bolsters ties with partners from U.A.E.
The President’s Sports Club of Belarus and Abu Dhabi Sports Council signed a cooperation memorandum that sets out the key areas of bilateral cooperation in sports...

Belarus president sends greetings to BSUIR personnel
"Graduates of the university who make a significant contribution to the development of the innovative Belarusian economy, strengthening of the industrial and scientific potential of the country are the golden fund of the university"...

Belarus among authors of CIS information security strategy
According to Oleg Makarov, the strategy offers different and detailed definitions of information security, or the so-called information sovereignty, for a personality, society and state...

Belarus, Azerbaijan law enforcement agencies to sign cooperation agreement
"Belarus’ delegation led by Investigative Committee Chairman Ivan Noskevich will meet with Azerbaijan’s Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov to sign a cooperation agreement between Belarus’ Investigative Committee and Azerbaijan’s Prosecutor General’s Office"...

Belarus, Russia discuss international information security
The officials discussed cooperation and coordination of Belarus’ and Russia’s efforts to promote their vision of enhancing international information security at various international platforms...

Talks on Donbass underway in Minsk
During the TCG meeting in Minsk on 27 February, OSCE’s special representative in the TCG Martin Sajdik urged the parties to the conflict to take urgent steps to improve the throughput capacity of checkpoints located along the line of contact...

Belarus, China to sign agreement on mutual recognition of education certificates
The minister believes that the agreement will help build up contacts in education between Belarus and China. The year 2019 has been declared the Year of Education of Belarus in China...

Belarus, Russia to intensify information security efforts
“Everyone understands that today information security is essential for every nation, every state and humankind in general”...

Belarus, Armenia to bolster mutual trade
“The parties discussed promising areas for developing bilateral cooperation in various fields, and emphasized the potential in further intensification of trade and economic cooperation and building up of mutual trade between Belarus and Armenia”...

Lukashenko offers condolences to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has expressed condolences to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres over the tragic loss of UN workers in a plane crash...

Plans to adopt Belarus information security concept soon
The document was worked out taking into account Belarus’ geopolitical interests, its place and role in the modern world...

Lukashenko offers condolences to Ethiopia president over plane crash victims
On behalf of the Belarusian people and himself Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has expressed condolences to Ethiopia President Sahle-Work Zewde over the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash...

Belarus, Croatia to step up political, economic cooperation
The matter was discussed at a meeting between Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Russia Vladimir Semashko and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Croatia to the Russian Federation Tomislav Car in Moscow on 7 March...

Belarus, Sudan discuss energy projects, extraction of natural resources
The Belarusian ambassador also met with a deputy minister of oil and mineral resources. Problems in implementing Belarusian-Sudanese joint projects in the area of extraction of mineral resources, oil, and gas, energy industry were discussed...

Belarus’ honorary consulate opens in Poland’s Katowice
Belarus’ honorary consulate has started working in Poland’s Katowice. It is headed by Marek Rasinski who received the necessary documents and paraphernalia from Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Poland Alexander Averianov in a solemn ceremony on 6 March...

Belarus approves fiscal program for 2019-2021
The program defines basic parameters of economic development and major monetary indicators, debt ceiling, major national budget parameters and expenditure ceilings for government programs in 2019-2020...

Belarus’ Justice Ministry seeks EU expert assistance with one-stop shop system
Belarus Justice Minister Oleg Slizhevsky met with Vassilis Maragos, Head of Unit “Regional Programmes Neighborhood East” of the DG Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations of the European Commission to discuss cooperation in the near term...

Lukashenko awards medals, orders to outstanding Belarusians
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has awarded orders and medals to over 20 people for impeccable military service, considerable accomplishments in maintaining combat readiness of army units...

Ways to invigorate Belarus-Kyrgyzstan political dialogue discussed
The conversation touched upon topical items on the bilateral agenda, including further invigoration of the political dialogue. Vladimir Makei and Kubanychbek Omuraliev also discussed ways to improve the effectiveness of the Belarus-Kyrgyzstan trade and economic cooperation commission...