Events

Polish Vice Premier Mateusz Morawiecki to visit Belarus
The Polish Vice Premier is set to take part in the opening of the 20th Belarusian-Polish economic forum "Good Neighborliness" and head the Polish delegation at the 4th meeting of the joint commission on economic cooperation...

Minsk to host international conference on economic integration, sustainable development
The program of the conference will include four areas of focus. These are trade and standards, transport and infrastructure, energy sector and green economy, investments and innovations...

Belarus, Malta agree to develop legal framework for bilateral cooperation
The parties agreed on further reciprocal steps aimed to enlarge and organize a bilateral treaty basis, intensify official contacts and realize practical initiatives in trade, economic and investment fields...

Iran seeks full-scale cultural cooperation with Belarus
“Iran needs to develop closer friendship with Belarus. Two months ago I visited your country and saw a big interest of Belarusians, especially the youth, students to the Iranian culture. Iran shows the same interest to the Belarusian culture,” said Mr Abbas Khame Yar...

Belarusian Fashion Chamber, UNAIDS to sign memorandum of cooperation
The signing ceremony will take place in Minsk on 20 October. It will be attended by Belarusian models and designers, UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador Svetlana Borovskaya. The main objective of the memorandum is to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS in the fashion community...

Full removal of sanctions ‘would contribute to faster advancement of Belarusian-American relations’
The day before BelTA quoted U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia Bridget Brink as saying that the suspension of sanctions against a number of Belarusian companies will be extended by another six months after 31 October...

EOC General Assembly to consider Belarus as possible host of Second European Games
"Today Minsk has a well-developed sport infrastructure. No one in Europe will question Belarus’ ability to host such a big sport event. There are enough successful examples, such as the 2014 IIHF World Championship, which show that Belarus will cope well with the organization of sport tournaments of different levels,” noted Maksim Ryzhenkov...

Belarus, Azerbaijan discuss bilateral cooperation
Vladimir Makei thanked Ambassador Isfandiyar Vahabzade for the good work and wished him new heights in his diplomatic career and good memories of Belarus...

CIS Heads of Government Council to meet in Minsk 28 October
It is expected that the heads of government will discuss the implementation of the free trade agreement, the energy production and consumption plan for the period through 2030, priority events in the humanitarian cooperation for the mid-term perspective...

Lukashenko sends greetings to participants of World Congress of Russian Press
“Representatives of 140 nationalities and ethnic groups live in accord and harmony on the Belarusian soil. The Russian language, which is the official language together with the Belarusian language in the country, serves as an important factor of social consolidation, productive intercultural dialogue”...

U.S. Department of State expects relations with Belarus to further improve
According to Bridget Brink, the USA expects relations with Belarus to get back to normal. Bridget Brink remarked that while in Belarus she had had a number of constructive meetings, including with Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei, representatives of the civil society, and political parties...

Advancement of Belarusian-American relations discussed
Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei met with U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia Bridget Brink on 18 October...

Belarus lauded for its contribution to countering trafficking in human beings
The interactive discussion was organized on the initiative of Belarus, the coordinator of the Group of Friends United against Human Trafficking, in cooperation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS)...

First round of Belarus-Indonesia political consultations held in Jakarta
During his working trip to Yogyakarta Valentin Rybakov met with His Majesty Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X, Governor of Yogyakarta Special Region, and also with the top executives of the Chamber of Trade and Commerce of Yogyakarta...

Belarus, Lithuania to discuss draft report for Espoo Implementation Committee in late October
“We are talking about the discussion of the draft agreement on the Espoo Convention between Belarus and Lithuania. We look forward to signing it. We do not exclude that other issues that were not discussed previously will be raised in the course of this meeting,” Vladimir Markov said...

Belarus, Hungary to coordinate joint cultural program for 2017
The parties were mainly interested in the organization of the Days of Belarusian Culture in Hungary in 2017. The event will mark the 25th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between the two countries...

Belarus, Russia discuss coordinated foreign political program
The parties discussed the Belarusian-Russian relations, including the progress made in the implementation of the coordinated action plan in the foreign policy of the Union State member states for 2016-2017...

EU’s experience in application of conventions on migrant workers' rights of interest to Belarus
Aleksei Begun, the head of the citizenship and migration department at Belarus’ Interior Ministry, said when welcoming the Mission of the International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) in Minsk...

Makei: Belarus will be strengthening ties with Russia
“In the current situation, amid the global economic crisis, we have come to understand that in order to minimize such influence we need to have good economic, trade, political and other relations with all the countries"...

Makei: Belarus does not view NATO buildup as direct threat
Belarus’ Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei said...