Events

European officials make statements about Belarus to cover their own blunders, ill-judged decisions
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed that as it follows an independent course, Belarus develops successfully...

Lukashenko: Belarus seeks closer ties with Singapore
Aleksandr Lukashenko pointed out that Belarus and Singapore shared long-standing friendship and trust, striving for maintaining and strengthening independence, sustainable development, enhancing the role of small and medium-sized states in the international arena...

Lukashenko sends bill to soften criminal liability for a number of crimes to Parliament
The punishment for 97 categories of offenses have been revised. Of these, 65 categories of offenses have been supplemented with alternative punishment, more lenient types of punishment (24 categories of offenses now contain imprisonment as the only possible punishment). Adjustments were made to 32 other categories of offenses, including with a view to eliminate the imbalance in the punishment...

Call on CIS countries to team up against cybercrime
The fight against cybercrime, according to the head of state, is also one of the key and very difficult tasks for law enforcement of the CIS countries. It is relevant for all countries...

Belarus-Russia draft agreement on security guarantees discussed in Minsk
During the meeting, the parties discussed topical issues of Belarusian-Russian cooperation...

Work on Belarus-Russia Union State Security Concept completed
The parties considered topical issues of bilateral cooperation in security within the framework of the Union State...

Belarus invites Serbia to develop cooperation in communications, ICT
During the talks, Konstantin Shulgan noted the constructive nature of cooperation between the countries in a variety of areas...

Lukashenko sends National Day greetings to Côte d'Ivoire
The head of state stressed that he pays great attention to strengthening friendship and cooperation between the two countries and reaffirmed his commitment to fruitful joint work in political, trade, economic, humanitarian and other fields...

Belarus-Uzbekistan cooperation seen as promising
Belarus and Uzbekistan are actively developing mutually beneficial cooperation...

Belarusian-Venezuelan cooperation discussed in Minsk
Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maksim Ryzhenkov met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the Republic of Belarus Franklin Ramirez Araque in Minsk on 6 August...

Belarusian FM, Zimbabwean ambassador discuss schedule of bilateral events in 2024
The parties discussed topical issues of cooperation in political, economic and humanitarian dimensions...

Belarus-Saudi economic cooperation discussed in Moscow
Belarusian Ambassador of to Russia Aleksandr Rogozhnik held a meeting with Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Russia and concurrently to Belarus Abdulrahman Bin Suleiman Al Ahmed in Moscow...

Belarus welcomes almost 132,000 visa-waiver travelers since 1 January 2024
Belarus has welcomed a total of 131,812 visitors from the EU since 1 January 2024 and 932,418 since the launch of the visa waiver program...

PM speaks about future visits of leaders of Venezuela, Nicaragua to Belarus
The prime minister added that the visits could be expected already in 2024...

Lukashenko okays appointment of new head of Petrikov District Executive Committee
Aleksandr Lukashenko asked Aleksandr Veremeyev whether he is well-informed about the issue of merging local farms and what is his take on it...

Lukashenko, Putin hold phone call
The Russian leader called his Belarusian counterpart. The heads of state reviewed the working issues they discussed during the recent meeting on Valaam...

Lukashenko: forests damaged by storm should be restored in 2025
One of the main issues on the agenda was processing of damaged and fallen trees, which should be followed by reforestation...

Lukashenko: Gomel Oblast should be put to rights
Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko gave an instruction to put Gomel Oblast to rights...

Eismont: Large-scale swap of prisoners between countries is a result of lengthy negotiations
The large-scale swap of prisoners between countries is a result of the negotiations that started a long time ago...

Kremlin: Russia grateful to Lukashenko for goodwill gesture of pardoning FRG citizen Krieger
It also noted that Moscow is also grateful to the leadership of all countries that assisted in the preparation of the exchange...