Events

Belarus interested in intensifying contacts with Brazil
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has sent greetings to Brazil President Michel Temer as the country celebrates Independence Day...

Belarus-Baltic Sea region parliamentary cooperation discussed in Hamburg
Valery Voronetsky held meetings with MPs of the BSPC member states to discuss the ways of expanding parliamentary cooperation with the Baltic Sea countries with a view to advancing Belarus’ national interests...

Contact group on Ukraine to reconvene in Minsk on 20 September
The subgroup on political affairs discussed ways to ensure the special status of individual districts of Lugansk Oblast and Donetsk Oblast in line with the Minsk agreements...

Swedish ambassador presents copies of credentials in Belarus’ MFA
The sides exchanged views on the current state and promising avenues of Belarus-Sweden cooperation...

Minsk to host EaP conference on 7 September
The participants of the conference will exchange views on whether the tasks and goals of the Eastern Partnership should be reconsidered and will outline the short- and medium term priorities which can become its new drivers...

Working groups on Ukraine resume talks in Minsk
The talks of the working groups are closed to the press...

EBRD president to visit Belarus 12-14 September
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is the largest institutional investor in the Belarusian economy...

Financial watchdogs of Belarus, Russia sign updated cooperation agreement
The updated agreement outlines the key avenues and forms of cooperation between the Belarusian State Control Committee and the Russian Accounts Chamber...

Moldova, Belarus to deregulate freight transport
In particular, bilateral and transit road freight transport will no longer require permits...

China’s Jilin seeks twinning ties with Belarusian city
The first steps in this direction have already been made. In summer Jilin started developing cooperation with the Frunzensky District of the Belarusian capital...

Belarus’ financial watchdog lays out priorities at CIS session in Baku
Speaking on the importance of quality indicators in the assessment of the effectiveness of supreme financial control bodies, Leonid Anfimov noted that Belarus’ State Control Committee pays utmost attention to the development of the system of evaluation indicators...

Igor Bolotov appointed Belarus’ deputy emergencies minister
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has signed corresponding Decree No. 318...

Consular affairs discussed in Belarus-Israel ministerial talks
The sides discussed the implementation of the Belarusian-Israeli intergovernmental agreement on mutual travels using national passports, the insurance of citizens of Israel in Belarus...

Belarus, Georgia reaffirm commitment to further development of relations
During the meeting the sides summed up the results of the negotiations, discussed the measures to step up bilateral cooperation in the political, trade and economic fields and considered the concrete steps to implement the joint projects...

Lukashenko urges against negligence during harvest campaign
“The instructions were given to secure a tough control over the organization of the harvest campaign. We should have finally got rid of negligence, unreasonable economic losses, embezzlement, corrupt practices, and scheming,” the head of state said...

Belarus attends session of CIS financial watchdogs
The meeting is taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan from 5 to 6 September. Leonid Anfimov, who is currently the chairman of the council, is going to make a report on the council’s work between the 16th and the 17th sessions...

CSTO states coordinate positions for 72nd UN General Assembly
The discussions highlighted the most important aspects of the CSTO participation in the UN peacekeeping activity, the situation in Afghanistan and the prospects for the counter-terrorism efforts within the United Nations...

EU initiative Mayors for Economic Growth to be presented in Mogilev
Representatives of the European Union in Belarus, municipal government agencies, donor organizations, not-for-profit organizations and civil society organizations of Mogilev Oblast will take part in the event...

Plans to hold regional forum on sustainable development in Minsk in early 2018
Chairman of the Council of the Republic Mikhail Myasnikovich met with Georgian Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mikheil Janelidze. According to the Belarusian speaker, Belarus plans to hold a regional forum for coordinators for sustainable development in Minsk in early 2018...

Belarus’ Customs working on nine international technical aid projects
According to the source, in 2017 Belarus’ Customs continued working to attract international technical aid resources for the sake of modernizing the customs service. One project has been completed. Another two are being implemented. Another nine have been preapproved...