Events

Petrishenko, Primakov discuss ways of boosting Belarus-Russia economic cooperation
The sides discussed the ways of promoting Belarusian-Russian relations, enhancing trade and economic cooperation, and promoting the integration processes within the framework of the Union State and the Eurasian Economic Union"...

Belarus president expects Minsk accords to stop war in Ukraine
“Today there is hope that on the basis of the Minsk agreements on resolving the Ukrainian crisis the international community will put efforts into stopping the fratricidal war. It is what the Ukrainian nation needs on top of everything else"...

Makei to meet with Vatican Secretary of State
The official visit of the representative of the Holy See is scheduled for 12-15 March. It will take place at the invitation of the Belarusian side...

Prague to host Belarus-Czech ministerial consultations 12 March
The Belarusian delegation will be led by Head of the Europe Office of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Valery Kurdyukov, the Czech delegation by Director of the Department for Northern and Eastern Europe at the Foreign Ministry Radek Pech...

Belarus’ first honorary consulate in Lithuania to open in Klaipeda 6 March
The ceremony to open the consulate will be attended by Belarus Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Guryanov who began his visit to the Republic of Lithuania on 5 March...

Kupchina to attend Belarus-EU consultations in Brussels 8-10 March
The Belarusian official is also set to meet with representatives of the European Commission and the European External Action Service...

North Korean Foreign Minister to visit Belarus on 8-12 March
The North Korean official is set to meet with Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei. Besides, the North Korean delegation will hold a meeting in the Belarusian government...

IMF mission to arrive in Belarus on 5 March
The IMF Office informed. The mission will do the annual review of the economy of Belarus and also there are are scheduled to have meetings in the President’s Administration, the National Bank, and the Economy Ministry...

Minsk to host Belarusian-Hungarian ministerial consultations 4 March
The Belarusian delegation will be headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Yelena Kupchina. The Hungarian delegation will be led by Dr. Balogh Csaba, Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade...

Medium-term development priorities for Belarus-Russia union determined
President of Russia Vladimir Putin made the statement after the session of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Belarus and Russia in Moscow on 3 March...

Belarus, Russia sign agreements on cooperation in social sector, migration policy
Apart from the resolutions of the Supreme State Council regarding the issues on the agenda, the sides signed four bilateral documents. These include an agreement on the mutual implementation of court rulings regarding the collection of child support payments...

Kobyakov, Medvedev sign joint anti-crisis plan
Previously Andrei Kobyakov stated that the plan contains specific points which implementation should be completed within six months of the year...

IAEA seminar on regulating infrastructure self-evaluation in Minsk on 9-11 March
The invitation was passed in March 2014 as part of the procedure to defend Belarus’ national report regarding the fulfillment of the Convention on Nuclear Safety...

Belarus’ CEC to monitor presidential elections in Uzbekistan
"The Belarusian delegation will include Chairperson of the Central Election Commission Lidia Yermoshina, and CEC member Marina Rakhmanova”...

Belarus-Russia union’s Supreme State Council to sit in Moscow on 3 March
The session will be primarily focused on bilateral cooperation in the trade and economic sphere. The press service noted that Russia is the main foreign trade partner of Belarus...

Minsk to host Belarus-Italy ministerial consultations on 3 March
The participants of the consultations will discuss different aspects of the political, trade, and economic cooperation between the two states, the development of the legal framework of the bilateral relations...

EP Delegation for Relations with Belarus may visit Minsk in June
The European MP noted that “Belarus’ role in seeking a compromise between Moscow and Kiev is noticeable”...

Belarus, EU may initial visa agreement in May
'Visa facilitation may include a reduction of the Schengen visa cost, changed requirements to the document packages and might result in the increasing number of people exempted from visa duties"...

Belarus-New Zealand cooperation prospects discussed at ministerial consultations
The Belarusian delegation was led by Deputy Foreign Minister Valentin Rybakov...

Belarus, Udmurtia sign protocol of cooperation by 2017
The Prime Minister noted that the current level of trade and economic cooperation between Belarus and the Udmurt Republic does not match the potential of the parties (in 2014 the mutual trade amounted to $44 million)...