News & Events in Belarus

Minsk declaration submitted to Espoo Convention Meeting
According to the press service, the adoption and implementation of the Minsk declaration will contribute to the achievement of the SDGs by 2030, will strengthen the role of the Espoo Convention and the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment in addressing the key problems such as climate change and biodiversity loss...

Lukashenko names six major tasks for CSTO in modern conditions
According to the president, major tasks include the coordination of the foreign policy activities of the CSTO member states, cooperation of the Organization with the leading universal and regional international agencies, comprehensive strengthening of the military, technical, anti-crisis, and peace-making potential of the CSTO...

Belarus in favor of speedy equipment of CSTO forces with newest armament
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said as he met with the defense ministers of the CSTO member states. According to the Belarusian head of state, the OSCE member states have designated their best trained divisions of the national armed forces to the Collective Rapid Response Forces...

Meeting of Parties to Espoo Convention opens in Minsk
Attending the events will be nearly 200 representatives from 45 member states of the Espoo Convention, including ministers and deputy ministers, high ranking officials of international organizations and financial institutes, the public. It is expected that the Minsk declaration will be signed at the final joint high-level meeting...

Lukashenko takes part in Astana Expo 2017 opening ceremony
A total of 60 delegations representing high and top-ranking officials arrived for the opening ceremony of the Astana Expo 2017. Among them were heads of state and heads of government of various countries and other officials, including those, who had taken part in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in the capital of Kazakhstan earlier that day...

Security, economic dimension named as Belarus’ priorities in SCO
The Belarusian head of state remarked that over the short period of time that has passed since Belarus joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as an observer, the country has come to fully realize that the choice was right. “As an observer, Belarus closely follows the processes that are unfolding in the SCO today,” he said...

Lukashenko attends SCO summit in Astana
In his speech the head of state will lay out Belarus' vision for the further development of the organization, including its economic dimension. As an observer in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Belarus takes an active part in a wide range of events in all major dimensions: political, diplomatic, trade, economic, cultural, and humanitarian ones...

Lukashenko hands over copies of documents to political repressions museum in Kazakhstan
Nursultan Nazarbayev thanked the Belarusian president for the archive materials. He said that the museum workers tried to restore the living conditions of prisoners in the elements of the exposition. “People were tortured and died there. Some of them had children, other women were pregnant. They gave birth to children, and children died,” the president of Kazakhstan said. These are unique materials of scientific and historical value featuring the story of a concrete person and a family...

Lukashenko arrives in Kazakhstan on working visit
Alexander Lukashenko will take part in the session of the Council of the Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization...

Belarus to display over 45 hi-tech products at Astana Expo 2017
The exposition will feature an electric bus and a prototype of a gas-fueled MAZ bus designed by the Education Ministry, the Industry Ministry, and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, strong multi-purpose power supply sources of the fifth technological paradigm, energy efficient materials and technologies, etc. Besides, there will be a presentation of 14 investment projects...

Microbiology congress in Minsk gathers some 120 scientists from Belarus, Russia, Latvia
The scientists gathered in Minsk to discuss the current state of microbiology in Belarus and its status in the international arena, and to consider ways to consolidate the efforts and establish effective cooperation in order to solve important scientific and state tasks in this area. The congress will identify the most promising areas for the development of fundamental and applied microbiology...

China ready to invest $1bn in Belarus’ agriculture
The head of Xinrongji Holding Group stressed that Belarus plays an important part in the Belt and Road initiative. The country is home to the Chinese-Belarusian Great Stone Park that envisages significant preferences to investors. “We would like to earn money together with our Belarusian partners and make a contribution to the development of the two countries,” he said...

Moldova can count on Belarus as reliable and open partner
Moldova can count on Belarus as a reliable partner open for cooperation in all avenues, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said as he met with Prime Minister of Moldova Pavel Filip on 6 June...

Enough markets for successful co-existence of competing Belarusian, Russian plants
There are good prospects for the development of enterprises, including competing ones, in Belarus and Russia, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said as he met with Governor of Russia’s Penza Oblast Ivan Belozertsev on 6 June...

Belarus, Russia foreign ministers sign joint statement on anniversary of diplomatic relations
Belarus and Russia maintain an active political dialogue at all levels. “The solid cooperation infrastructure that we have established over the past years enables us to promptly find mutually acceptable solutions to any issues on the bilateral agenda,” the statement reads...

Belarus, Russia foreign ministers open exhibition to mark anniversary of diplomatic relations
The exhibition in the building of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Spiridonovka Street features the documents and photographs related to the major events in the relations of the two countries over the past quarter of a century. The exhibition features the copies of the protocol on the establishment of the diplomatic relations between Belarus and Russia, the agreement on good neighborliness and cooperation, the Treaty on the Community of Belarus and Russia, the Treaty on the Union of Belarus and Russia, and the Treaty on the Belarus-Russia Union State...

Festival of Belarusian songs and poetry described as bright event in Belarus’ cultural life
“Over the years of existence the festival has become a bright event in the cultural life of the republic. It traditionally helps enrich the spiritual legacy of our ancestors, popularize the Belarusian poetry, preserve the best achievements of the Belarusian music,” the message of greetings reads...

Belarusian exposition opened at Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum
The exposition was opened by First Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Vasily Matyushevsky and Member of the Board (Minister) for Industry and Agribusiness of the Eurasian Economic Commission Sergei Sidorsky. The exposition occupies 60m2. Belarus’ collective booth is used to present leading petrochemical companies, transport, healthcare, and pharmaceutical companies...

Lukashenko stresses urgency of reversing recession in domestic oil processing
“There is no need to stress once again the the urgency of the issue. I have once said that that the degree of its importance is comparable with that of the independence of our state. We should do our utmost to ensure the energy independence and security of Belarus,” the head of state emphasized...

Belarusian culture center opens in Beijing
Boris Svetlov noted that the center will assist with the advancement of Belarus-China cooperation in cultural affairs, humanitarian affairs, education, tourism, and information by expanding contacts and cooperation with creative, cultural, and educational institutions and the general public of the two countries...