Opinions & Interviews

Viktor Lukashenko: Belarus is ready to host tournaments of the highest level
“Despite the sanctions imposed by international federations, we have managed to build a clear calendar together with the Russian Olympic Committee, the Ministries of Sport of Belarus and Russia. I am confident that together we can organize large-scale competitions of any level,” Viktor Lukashenko said...

Call to resist attempts to manipulate historical past of Belarus
He stressed that a lot has already been done, including with the participation of the National Council on Historical Policy...

Kochanova: Cooperation between Belarus, Iran has a great future
"We are always ready to support your country in terms of bilateral cooperation and at all international platforms and organizations," Natalya Kochanova said. “Such friendly relations between our countries have developed due to the good, constructive relations between the presidents of our countries"...

Plans to set up biological security council under Belarus’ Council of Ministers
Roman Golovchenko said: “At a recent government conference, during which the head of state looked into matters of biological security of agricultural facilities, it was said clearly that it is the exclusive domain of the state. It is the state that has to take all the measures to prevent negative manifestations. This is why we have to make up our minds about our tactics of further actions for responding to global biological threats and their consequences”...

Lukashenko urges to preserve a peaceful Belarus for future generations
The head of state noted that the day of the reunification of Belarus, its eastern and western parts - 17 September 1939 - has become a symbol of the national unity that will not fade over time...

Ambassador: Türkiye and Belarus can reach $1.5 billion in trade
In 2022, Belarus-Türkiye trade exceeded $1 billion. In January-July 2023, it came close to $675 million...

Belarus’ vice premier names areas of cooperation with African countries
"We come with our technology, our proposals. We come and do not just sell our technology and equipment - we create technology, train specialists, and try to ensure the best service and support. These people need serious training to operate a tractor, a harvester and other vehicles that are supplied to the regions of Africa,” Piotr Parkhomchik said...

Equatorial Guinea ready to promote genuine manufacturing cooperation with Belarus
The president stressed that cooperation with Belarus will be promoted on a mutually beneficial basis and other countries of the region will also benefit from it...

PM: Belarus is working on perpetuating the memory of genocide victims
According to him, the investigation of the genocide of the Belarusian people will continue...

Equatorial Guinea president views Belarus as fraternal nation
Belarus and its people are a fraternal nation and country for us, Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo said as he met with Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko...

CSTO exercise seen as opportunity for troops to practice, show readiness to respond to any threats
Viktor Gulevich underlined that this exercise was one of the most important events of the Collective Security Treaty Organization this year...

Lukashenko greets participants of Belarus-Uzbekistan women’s business forum
Aleksandr Lukashenko wished: “May your dialogue open new prospects for the implementation of joint projects, expansion of economic and humanitarian ties between Belarus and Uzbekistan. I wish the forum participants fruitful work, creative inspiration, inexhaustible energy and great success in all their endeavors”...

MP: CSTO needs to preserve unity, seek new forms of cooperation
"Only in this way we can defend the sovereignty of our states and preserve peace in the CSTO zone,” Valery Mitskevich added...

Lukashenko calls Children’s Technopark students Belarus’ future
The head of state was greeted at the technopark by its students and immediately got a chance to learn the first-hand information...

Decisions to improve living standards in wake of Belarus’ Security Council session
After a session of the Security Council hosted by Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko on 31 August, State Secretary of the Security Council Aleksandr Volfovich talked to reporters about the matters participants of the session had discussed and about the decisions they had made...

No response from Poland to invitation to send observers to watch CSTO exercise in Belarus
Viktor Khrenin said: “We’ve sent the invitation. There is no response so far. The exercise begins on 1 September. Let’s see at what stage. There is still time till 6 September, till the last stage of the exercise. Feel free to come over. We are ready to show our openness”...

Lukashenko: Demands on withdrawal of PMC Wagner from Belarus are groundless, stupid
The president noted that the leadership of Poland and the Baltic countries is whipping up hysteria over the deployment of PMC Wagner members on the territory of Belarus...

PM: Social spending will grow by 12% in 2024
According to him, the government will keep subsidizing housing construction for young and large families and other categories of citizens in need of better living conditions, and will help build engineering, transport and other infrastructure in new neighborhoods...

Details about development of Belarus’ own vaccine revealed
According to Sergei Bolshakov, the platform for creating a vaccine was tested on the COVID-19 virus. This platform can also work with influenza, hepatitis, smallpox and a number of other diseases...

FM: Belarus’ application to join BRICS is given priority consideration
“Belarus counts on the prompt consideration of our application that was filed officially in May. During our communication with BRICS member states and partner countries, we received very clear assurances that our application will be given priority consideration,” Sergei Aleinik said...