Opinions & Interviews

Up to resident companies to ensure success of China-Belarus industrial park now
“We are now past the stage of building the infrastructure, enabling the conditions, working out some legislation. Now the success of the project hinges primarily on our residents”...

Belarus ready to share SDG-related experience with Latvia
"Our Latvian partners want to learn more about our approaches to sustainable development and we will be happy to share our experience. Belarus is interested not only in economic and humanitarian matters, but also in the environmental component"...

Ambassador: Interest of German business in Belarus growing
According to the ambassador, Belarus expects to welcome representatives of the German Association of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses which unites more than 55,000 German companies and represents the interests of about 10 million workers...

Belarus to present about 100 new defense products at MILEX 2019
"The scale will be impressive. We’ve gathered about 170 exhibitors from ten countries. Certainly, the Belarusian exposition will be the largest one. We will roll out about 100 samples of new weapons and military hardware"...

FM: Belarus will keep expanding contacts with EU
"We are determined to get the Partnership Priorities signed. Unfortunately, this process was suspended and it was not our fault. I hope that by the end of the year we will make progress with signing the agreements on visa facilitation and readmission"...

Belarus to get ready to host European football championship in two years
"The head of state believes that Belarus will hold the 2nd European Games at a high level, and after a couple of years will be happy to host larger competitions such as the UEFA European Football Championship. Though the country needs a spacious national stadium for this"...

Opinion: Great Patriotic War is lesson for life
According to him, the Victory Day celebration brings the peoples of Belarus and Moldova closer because they have common heroes. Among them was Moldova’s native Sergei Bolgarin who participated in the battles for the liberation of Belarus and was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union...

Call to take effective measures to preserve memory of Great Patriotic War in Belarus
“To keep the memory alive, we must not forget and we must teach our children. Where possible, we must show our kids, even the smallest ones, that it is our victory. It is not just the achievement of those who made the victory possible. It is our heritage”...

Lukashenko rules out developments in Belarus similar to Venezuela, Syria
The president noted that Belarus did not just foresee the development of conflicts in different parts of the world but also experienced some of these events this or that way...

Leaders of former Soviet republics invited to visit Belarus more often on Victory Day
“9 May is a holiday for all and, above all, for the Belarusians. We, representatives of former Soviet republics and even heads of state, should meet more often in Minsk, to pay homage to this holy land,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said...

Belarus president calls for united front against threat of global terrorism
"After all, the main lesson of the Great Victory is that peace must be fought for. Especially nowadays, when it is under the gun of global terrorism and not only it. We need to fight for peace together, in unison"...

Opinion: We live and work in peaceful country thanks to Great Victory
“For me this day grows in importance every year because I realize more clearly all the things that our ancestors did during the Great Patriotic War,” Natalya Kochanova noted...

Call to take special care of frontline soldiers, homefront workers in Belarus
"We mourn the victims of the war - women, elderly and children. They had more than their fair share of hardships during the occupation. Lasting memory to those who wanted to live but fell on battlefields, died of wounds or in the concentration camps and ghettos"...

Lukashenko: Future generations should know the price our people paid for freedom
“The Great Victory is the triumph of life over death. Coming generations should know what price our people paid for freedom. In the name of goodness, justice and peace. Nothing similar must never happen again,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said...

Opinion: Belarusians have survived as a nation thanks to memory about ancestors’ feats
“We are here, on this holy land, to pay tribute to the immortal feat of our ancestors, partisans. who 75 years ago broke the Nazi blockade. The memorable dates that we celebrate these days of May are important for every Belarusian”...

Belarusian PR firms encouraged to dominate domestic market
“The Information Ministry attaches great importance to the development of public relations. PR is not only about certain ideas, positive images and reputation. It is also about business. We want the Belarusian PR market to be dominated by Belarusian companies, and this is something we have been working toward”...

Belarus’ food export to China up 15 times over two years
"Today the People's Republic of China is a major economic actor on the global market. Thanks to China, the international economic relations are tilting towards openness and mutual cooperation thus giving us a possibility to overcome flimsy artificial barriers"...

China ready to increase investment in Belt and Road foreign markets
He stressed the importance of Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s participation in the first and second forums for international cooperation in Beijing. The Belarusian head of state was one of the first to support the Belt and Road initiative, Xu Rongmao said...

Joint cultural projects to advance Belarus-Liechtenstein cooperation
Vladimir Makei stressed that there are good prospects and a serious potential for further advancement of Belarus-Liechtenstein contacts...

Discussion about terms of 5G deployment in Belarus in progress
5G is a new generation of high-speed data transfer technologies. It is the successor of the previous standards GSM, 3G, 4G/LTE. The first few zones to test 5G have already been deployed in Belarus...