Events

Belarus president urges to finalize amendments to land use legislation
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko gave an instruction to finalize amendments to the legislation on the protection and use of land at the corresponding session...

Relations with North America high on agenda of Belarus-Russia ministerial consultations
The diplomats discussed their countries’ relations with the United States and Canada, and also the approaches of the ministries of foreign affairs to development of cooperation with these countries...

Belarus, Argentina to work out full-fledged legal framework
“We have already set up a working group on cooperation with the parliament of Argentina. Argentina has been completing the corresponding work to announce the composition of the group in the near future”...

Ecuador’s group of friends act signed in Minsk
The document was inked by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ecuador to Belarus Carlos Larrea Davila and Minsk Vice Mayor Igor Karpenko...

India president to visit Belarus in June
“Belarus and India are good trade partners. We are interested in raising the level of economic cooperation,” said Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to Belarus Manoj Kumar Bharti...

Belarus parliament’s upper chamber okays documents on international automobile transport
The amendments have been brought about by the introduction of road toll in Latvia as of 1 July 2014. Road toll is collected in Latvia regardless of the type of transportation...

Makei to lead Belarus’ delegation at EaP Summit in Riga
BelTA learned from spokesman for the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dmitry Mironchik...

EaP final declaration to include Belarus’ proposals
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Latvia Andrejs Pildegovics told media in Riga...

Minsk meeting of security subgroup of contact group on Ukraine over
The session of the subgroup on security took place in the diplomatic service hall and lasted for about 5.5 hours...

Lukashenko meets with Metropolitan Filaret
The meeting took place in the days of the Easter celebrations. The President and the Metropolitan congratulated each other on this bright holiday...

Belarus, Argentina discuss ways of intensifying bilateral relations
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Guryanov met with a delegation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Argentina headed by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Argentine Republic to Russia and concurrently to Belarus Pablo Anselmo Tettamanti...

U.S. Commercial Service to send its representatives to Belarus for talks on economic cooperation
On 18 May in Washington the Belarusian delegation met with representative of the U.S. Department of Commerce Matthew Murray to discuss the prospects of trade and economic interaction between the two countries...

Myanmar parliamentary delegation to visit Belarus 21-24 May
The parliamentary delegation led by Speaker of the House of Nationalities of the Assembly of the Union of Myanmar Khin Aung Myint will visit Belarus at the invitation of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus...

Political and economic cooperation discussed during Belarus-Sweden consultations in Minsk
At the consultations Belarus’ delegation was led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alena Kupchyna, the Swedish delegation by director general for political affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thorbjorn Solstrom...

Belarus’ Healthcare Minister meets with WHO Director General in Geneva
In his speech at the plenary session of the World Health Assembly the head of the Belarusian delegation pointed out the priority tasks in healthcare, i.e. the development of the primary health care, gradual transition to general practice, strengthening of preventive measures...

CIS Heads of Government Council to discuss joint financial, economic steps
The participants of the meeting will consider over 20 draft documents in various areas of cooperation within the Commonwealth of Independent States...

Expansion of Belarus-Afghanistan legal base discussed
During the meeting the diplomats also talked over prospects of advancing Belarusian-Afghan economic cooperation, the organization of and actual joint events in 2015...

Belarus’ MFA, U.S. Department of State discuss human rights
The parties considered the outcome of the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review of commitments of the two countries in the UN Human Rights Council as well as their recommendations...

Belarus, Sweden to discuss Belarus-EU cooperation
On behalf of Belarus the consultations will be attended by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alena Kupchyna, on behalf of Sweden by director general for political affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thorbjorn Solstrom...

Belarus calls for pragmatic approach towards EaP Riga Summit
The Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs met with senior officials of the European Commission, as well as ministers of foreign affairs of the EU member states and the EaP partner countries. The parties discussed the state and prospects of the development of the Belarus-EU dialogue and bilateral cooperation...