Opinions & Interviews

Opinion: WorldSkills helps keep up with latest trends in vocational training
"Belarus pays a lot of attention to training of professionals. It is the foundation for our economy. Therefore, it is important for us to assimilate advanced practices"...

Belarus 2019 parliamentary elections more accessible for voters with disabilities
"Special places will be provided for voters in wheelchairs. These will be either low desks or tables for people to be able to enter the booth in a wheelchair, or a special table in a cubicle next to the commission"...

UK ambassador praises Belarus’ peacekeeping efforts
"The fact that your country suggested Minsk as a place for negotiations deserves special recognition. I am convinced that other countries also welcome this initiative, after all, it gives stakeholders an opportunity to meet and discuss the situation. Your country pays much attention to security matters"...

Belarus’ ambassador to Israel calls to fine-tune visa waiver enforcement
“Abolishing the visa requirements, according to our estimates, gave a great boost to the entire set of bilateral relations. In a sense, it became a symbol of mutual confidence, created a favorable atmosphere for contacts in different areas and stimulated the interest in visiting the friendly country, learning more about it”...

Belarus PM on key goals for EAEU: equal business conditions, common markets
“We need to continue working to create equal business doing conditions in the Eurasian Economic Union. We are gradually learning to make decisions of national level keeping in mind our commitments to the EAEU. This is an achievement”...

Call for Belarus, Russia to prompt harmonization of legislations
The chairman of the Council of the Republic emphasized the importance of harmonizing the national legislations of the two countries within the framework of the Union State...

Promising areas of Belarus’ cooperation with EU outlined
According to Irina Kostevich, the ministry’ cooperation with the European Union as part of international technical aid projects has been fruitful. The head of the European Union delegation to Belarus has played a major role in it...

Belarus wants to see more investment from UK
British business ranks in the top three investors in the Belarusian economy. As of today the investment portfolio is pretty big. “But we would like to see more investors in pharmaceutics, mechanical engineering, and power engineering”...

Opinion: Belarus needs ultra-modern swimming pool
“Belarus should have an ultramodern world-class swimming pool to host competitions and train athletes. The national swimming team constantly moves from one facility to another, it needs a permanent residence"...

Belarus eager to facilitate EU's closer ties with other EAEU countries
Belarus hopes that European institutions will continue supporting bilateral inter-parliamentary contacts with the EU countries. Mikhail Myasnikovich cited Poland, Austria, Germany and Italy as an example...

Fionna Gibb: I have fallen in love with Belarus
"I really like your country. I lived in Ukraine, Germany, Canada, Turkey, Iraq, Yemen and Kenya… Now I am living in Belarus, and so far this is the country I love most. It was a great honor for me to work here as an ambassador"...

Ambassador: Belarus attracts increasing interest from Georgian business
"Culture opens the road for economy. Tbilisoba festival is not an exception. It helps develop the economy of our countries. Belarus has become a modern trend for Georgian businessmen, for investment. Belarusian businessmen come to us too"...

Wiktorin: EU keen to develop full cooperation with Belarus
“We want to develop cooperation in all avenues. The European Union acknowledges and recognizes the constructive position of Belarus on the settlement of the crisis in Ukraine”...

Lukashenko: Brexit is a great loss for the EU, but beneficial for bilateral ties
He pointed to tremendous opportunities for cooperation taking into consideration Belarus’ membership in the Eurasian Economic Union. "We would like to be more visible for the UK"...

Lukashenko hopes for UK support in advancing Belarus-United States relations
“You have great relations with the United States. I wish this relations were somehow projected on Belarus. I think you will be able to help us,” the head of state said...

Minsk Dialogue forum to focus on European security amid global militarization
Explaining the choice of this year’s forum’s topic, the expert noted that it may look excessively dramatized but it is the situation Belarus and other countries are in...

Future stadium, swimming pool in Minsk to meet FIFA, FINA standards
"Technical economic aid will come from China. A Chinese company will be the general contractor. Chinese companies, which have come up with an exclusive solution, will be the designers. The world has not seen such civil engineering and functionality solutions yet"...

Mogherini set to visit Belarus in October
Andrea Wiktorin noted that high-level visits to Belarus have become more frequent, the country is active in the Eastern Partnership and Brussels appreciates this very much...

Belarus government eager to sign visa facilitation agreement with EU in autumn
Sergei Rumas said: “I think we will complete all the intrastate approval procedures by autumn. I strongly hope that the agreement will be signed in autumn. At least the Belarusian side will do its best to make it happen”...

CEC: Some Br23m to be earmarked for parliamentary elections in Belarus
The matter is about both the elections to the House of Representatives and also the elections to the Council of the Republic, she clarified...