Events

Belarus to take part IAEA General Conference session in Vienna
A Belarusian delegation led by Deputy Energy Minister Mikhail Mikhadyuk will take part in the 61st session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which will take place in Vienna, Austria on 18-22 September...

Belarusian MPs, international experts discuss death penalty issues
International experts are in Belarus solely for the purpose of informing the public on the subject of the death penalty. Citizens will afterwards decide on this issue on their own...

Belarus’ Healthcare Ministry, WHO/Europe discuss draft plan of cooperation till 2019
The 67th session of the WHO Regional Office for Europe is taking place in Budapest. The Belarusian delegation led by Deputy Healthcare Minister Vyacheslav Shilo attended it. He delivered a report on the national experience regarding the issues on the agenda...

Defense Ministry: Belarus strictly adheres to its international arms control obligations
Oleg Voinov noted that the OSCE and NATO member states actively take advantage of their opportunities envisaged by the international arms control agreements...

Quality of official statistics discussed at international seminar in Minsk
A high-level seminar for heads of national statistics agencies of Mongolia and countries located in Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia (EECCA) began in Minsk on 13 September to end on 15 September...

Voinov: Belarus promptly informs the public about Zapad 2017
A large number of observers have been invited to attend the Zapad 2017 army exercise. Initiations have been sent to international organizations such as the UN, OSCE, NATO, CIS, CSTO, ICRC...

Belarus, Czechia to bolster ties in agriculture
The meeting was held as part of the visit of a delegation of Belarusian milk processing companies to Czechia where the Belarusians plan to learn more about Czech equipment used in agriculture and food industry...

EBRD to help Belarus improve governance of SOEs
During the negotiations, the government and the EBRD signed a memorandum of understanding on the improvement of the governance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs)...

Belarusian APC Cayman to participate in Zapad 2017 exercise
The weapons include a large-caliber machine gun Utes and a modernized Kalashnikov machine gun for armored vehicles...

Kazakhstan ambassador points out openness of Zapad 2017 exercise
"I do not share the concerns of those diplomats (it is known what countries they represent). We regularly hold such exercises in Kazakhstan. These are scheduled exercises"...

Nazarbayev plans to visit Belarus in November
The visit of the Kazakhstan head of state will be preceded by a session of the joint intergovernmental commission in Karaganda on 22 September...

Belarus, China plan to declare 2018 Year of Tourism
Belarus and China have been working on enabling favorable conditions for tourism development...

Russian aircraft arrive in Belarus for Zapad 2017 exercise
Russian military aviators received a warm welcome in Belarus...

Support for Belarus’ early accession to WTO reaffirmed
The sides exchanged views on the current status of the negotiations on Belarus’ accession to the WTO and discussed the preparations for the ninth session of the working group...

Belarus’ unfaltering dedication to safety of nuclear power plant underlined
The official said that the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry (Gosatomnadzor) is about to finish preparing the relevant national report based on results of the stress tests...

Lukashenko meets with India President Ram Nath Kovind in New Delhi
The presidents will once again discuss the issues on the bilateral agenda and international cooperation which were in the center of attention at the previous meeting with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Israel's MASHAV to foster cooperation with Belarusian rescuers
"During the Safety of the Society workshop running in Minsk on 11-14 September the MASHAV experts will share Israel’s best practices in emergency response"...

Belarus, Moldova to expand cooperation in industry, agriculture, construction, pharmaceutics
The sides reviewed the status of implementation of the agreements achieved following the official visit of Moldovan Prime Minister Pavel Filip to Belarus on 6-7 June 2017...

Belarus-Moldova trade up by 10% in January-July 2017
The trade and economic relations between Belarus and Moldova is a good example of the strategic partnership between the two states aimed at implementing mutually beneficial projects, Octavian Calmic said...

CIS armies agree on next year’s joint events
A regular session of the committee took place in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on 12 September. Belarus was represented by First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Belarusian army Sergei Kuprik...