Events

Belarus WTO accession discussed in Minsk
During the meeting Andrei Yeudachenka informed the WTO delegation about Belarus’ consistent work to join the WTO...

Lukashenko arrives in Astana for CSTO summit
As BelTA reported earlier, the agenda of the summit includes issues of international and regional security, coordination of foreign policy of the CSTO member states, the organization’s current and projected activities...

Lukashenko off to Astana for CSTO summit
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has gone on a working trip to Kazakhstan where he will take part in a session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)...

Security councils of Belarus, Kazakhstan sign cooperation plan for 2019-2020
The parties discussed topical issues of interaction and signed a plan of cooperation between the offices of the Security Councils of the two countries for 2019-2020...

Belarus, Kyrgyzstan reaffirm commitment to closer ties
According to Chingiz Aidarbekov, the recent session of the intergovernmental commission was very successful. The session discussed topical issues and promising projects, like supply of various products and establishment of joint ventures to produce machinery...

Belarus president wants concise plan for fixing all bridges ready next year
“The availability of well-developed transport infrastructure is a very important component in the uniform development of regions of Belarus. This is why the state of all the bridges in the country is being evaluated. Decisions will be made after that”...

Zhitkovichi District bridge construction workers to be awarded
The head of state was pleased with the prompt and quality work they had done to reconstruct the bridge. He went to Gomel Oblast on a working trip on 6 November...

Belarus president opens reconstructed bridge in Gomel Oblast
Alexander Lukashenko noted that the commissioning of new significant facilities in the run-up to 7 November – October Revolution Day – has already become a good tradition in Belarus...

Belarus president visits Gomel Oblast
In particular, the head of state will visit Zhitkovichi District where he will be informed about the fulfillment of his instructions to build a bridge over the Pripyat River...

Lukashenko: Belarus is against any kinds of conflicts
He emphasized that the military doctrine of Belarus is of an exclusively defensive nature: “I have repeatedly said that our country will never be a threat to neighbors”...

Belarus, Turkey to develop cooperation in polar research
“Belarus suggests cooperation with 2-3 members of the Turkish Polar Research Center at the Belarusian station in 2019,” the embassy said...

U.S. analysts visiting Belarus
Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei met with the U.S. analysts. The meeting focused on the current state of Belarusian-American relations and their development prospects...

Belarus-China Year of Education plan of action signed in Beijing
The meeting was chaired by Nikolai Snopkov, Deputy Head of the Belarus President Administration, and Guo Shengkun, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and head of the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the CPC Central Committee...

Belarus-Uzbekistan sign cooperation roadmap
The roadmap includes more than 100 events to boost bilateral trade in goods and services, provide mutual access to the parties' markets, cooperate in industrial cooperation, agriculture, light industry, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, construction...

Belarus, Estonia to sign social security agreement by 2018 yearend
As far as pension provision is concerned, the agreement is based on a principle of proportionality. In order words, each state will pay pension benefits for each year of employment on its territory...

Belarus, Kazakhstan to scale up cooperation in innovative sector
Chairman of the Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev added that Belarus made considerable progress in the innovative sector, and Kazakhstan wants to know how this progress was achieved...

Customs services of Belarus, Moldova sign plan of cooperation between educational institutions
The agenda of the meeting included topical issues of cooperation between the customs services of the two countries, the status of implementation of the agreement to promote mutual trade...

Talks on Serbia-Kosovo conflict held in Minsk
He noted that the participants of the meeting in Minsk included Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic and Kosovo political leader Hashim Thaci. “Yesterday they discussed the need to continue the negotiation process in order to reach an agreement on the existing conflict”...

Belarus ratifies visa-free agreement with Georgia
Belarus’ Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Evgeny Shestakov noted that the intergovernmental agreement was signed in Tbilisi on 22 March 2018 during the official visit of the President of Belarus to Georgia...

Lukashenko: Those who wave about nuclear arms fail to care about their own national security
“For now we see politicians making statements about medium-range and small-range missiles, about strategic offensive armaments, and so on. We also hear all kinds of chatter in mass media. We can handle the chatter for now. We take a look at it sometimes”...