Events

Lukashenko sends Independence Day greetings to Syria
Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has extended greetings to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as the country celebrates Evacuation Day, a symbol of the country’s independence and sovereignty...

Belarus, Eswatini to create legal framework for bilateral relations
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to South Africa Igor Bely met with Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Pholile Shakantu of the Kingdom of Eswatini in Johannesburg on 16 April...

Belarusian People's Congress to convene on 24-25 April
"Setting the date of the first meeting of the Belarusian People's Congress, we were guided by the constitution and also by the organizational and technical measures needed to prepare and conduct the Belarusian People's Congress," Igor Karpenko said...

Belarus, China seek to strengthen interstate contacts
The parties examined the state and prospects of Belarus-China cooperation across the board and discussed the schedule of upcoming contacts at various levels...

FM discusses plans to expand Belarus’ economic presence in Algeria
The parties discussed the entire bilateral agenda, as well as the international situation. It was noted that there can be no diplomacy or politics without sustainable trade and economic cooperation...

Belarus, Russia conclude agreement on recognition of electronic digital signature
Commenting on the agreement, Konstantin Shulgan stated that in Belarus an electronic digital signature has been in use for a long time in electronic document management...

Belarus, Algeria mull over opening embassies, launching aid service
Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Aleinik told the media following the talks with Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs and the National Community Abroad, Ahmed Attaf in Algiers...

Belarus hosts over 66,000 visa-waiver visitors since 1 January 2024
These included 33,160 citizens of Lithuania, 15,668 citizens and 4,077 non-citizens of Latvia, and 13 260 citizens of Poland...

Belarus calls for consolidation of efforts to stabilize situation in Middle East
"We consistently advocate a peaceful settlement of the conflict in the Middle East by political and diplomatic means," Anatoly Glaz stressed. "We appeal to the entire international community and international organizations to take measures and consolidate efforts to urgently stabilize the situation"...

FM conveys message from Lukashenko to Algerian president
The parties took note of the constructive nature of Belarusian-Algerian relations and similar positions of the two countries on the majority international issues, including the recognition of the diversity of ways of development of independent states...

PMs to discuss bilateral cooperation between Belarus, Russia
A Belarusian government delegation is flying out to Moscow for talks. The Government House of the Russian Federation will host a meeting between Roman Golovchenko and Mikhail Mishustin...

FM: Belarus is concerned about a new round of escalation in Middle East
“We paid a lot of attention to the current difficult international situation. Belarus is concerned about a new round of dangerous escalation in the Middle East and rising tensions,” Sergei Aleinik said...

Belarusian FM plans to visit Algeria on 14-15 April
The Belarusian minister of foreign affairs is scheduled to hold meetings with the country's leadership and talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs and the National Community Abroad, heads of a number of other ministries and departments of Algeria...

Lukashenko meets with Russia’s Security Council members at Putin’s invitation
As for the recent talks with Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, Aleksandr Lukashenko said that the presidents spent little time on discussing economic issues...

Belarus, Azerbaijan to continue supporting each other in international organizations
During the talks Belarus and Azerbaijan reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening bilateral cooperation...

Over 27,500 Ukrainian citizens arrive in Belarus since 1 January
All in all, since 24 February 2022, 174,015 Ukrainian nationals have arrived in our country from the Ukrainian territory...

Kochanova re-elected Chair of Council of Republic
The chairperson of the Council of the Republic was elected by secret ballot at the first meeting of the first session of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the eighth convocation...

FM: Belarus, Kazakhstan maintain close contacts on multiple levels
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Sergei Aleinik met with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Murat Nurtleu who arrived in Minsk to participate in the meeting of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council...

Putin awards Order of Gagarin to Vasilevskaya, Novitsky
The award was bestowed “for great services to manned cosmonautics and for the courage shown during the long-term space flight to the International Space Station”...

Russia offered to continue cosmonaut program with Belarus
According to him, Roscosmos has reaffirmed its readiness to work with Belarus on the development of a full-fledged space program...