MINSK, 17 December (BelTA) – The Gomelproyekt Institute has become a winner at the International Quality Tournament of Central and Eastern European Countries, BelTA learnt from the press service of the State Committee for Standardization of Belarus. An awarding ceremony was held at a session of the General Assembly of the European Organization for Quality (EOQ). Awardees comprised twelve companies from Belarus, Hungary, Romania, Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Russia and...

GOMEL, 9 December (BelTA) – The Belarusian oil company Belorusneft has extracted 120 million tons of oil so far, BelTA learnt from the company’s press service. Belarus started oil production on 20 August 1964 from a more than 2,000-meter well near the village of Kaporovka, the Rechitsa region. The first million of tons of the Belarusian black gold was extracted in 1967. Then the oil was extracted at the largest oil deposits in Rechitsa and Ostashkovichi. Other productive areas were...

GOMEL, 4 December (BelTA) – A delegation of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees headed by its representative in Belarus Sholeh Safavi will discuss cooperation in promoting refugees’ integration in Gomel on 4 December, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. The international delegation is set to meet with the authorities of the Gomel oblast. The guests will visit the temporary accommodation center for refugees and get...

GOMEL, 3 December (BelTA) – The Magic on Christmas traditional charitable event started in Gomel and will last till 7 January, BelTA learnt from the Gomel centre for social services for families and children. The event is held in Gomel for the sixth time under the auspices of the local authorities. The event includes collection of New Year presents for kids from children’s homes and low-income families. The organizing committee of the event is ready to accept books, toys, sports...

GOMEL, 2 December (BelTA) – the telephone landline service will be installed in twenty-two new agro-towns of the he Gomel oblast by the end of the year, BelTA learnt from the Beltelecom Gomel branch. At present, Beltelecom specialists are reequipping automatic telephone exchanges, replacing the analog equipment with new digital equipment. In November, Beltelecom provides the telephone landline service to all the production facilities in the agro-towns. By 1 January all agro-towns’...

GOMEL, 3 December (BelTA) – An Italian entertainment and leisure center will be built in Gomel in 2010, BelTA learnt from head of economic department of the Gomel City Council Natalya Gevraseva. The center will take the premises of a former restaurant. It will include a restaurant, a cafe serving Italian cuisine, gambling halls, parking space and other facilities. Italian investors are set to invest more than ?2 million in the project. Designing and renovation of the building is underway....

GOMEL, 19 November (BelTA) – In 2010 the Gomselmash Production Association will deliver at least 300 machine sets to the Kostanai diesel plant. This is 1.5 times up from 2008. The agreement was reached during the negotiations with representatives of the Agromashholding company, Gomselmash’s main partner in Kazakhstan, BelTA learnt from Igor Korotkevich, the chief of the Gomselmash sale department. Cooperation between Gomselmash and the Kostanai diesel plant started in 2008. Then the...

GOMEL, 19 November (BelTA) – The 9th International Children’s Contest, Music of Hope, will take place in Gomel on 30 November to 5 December 2009. Partaking in it will be over 60 young musicians under 16 from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, Kazakhstan and China, BelTA learnt from director of the contest Mikhail Golovach. Gomel has been hosting this international contest since 1996, the year when President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko first sent a message of greetings to its...

MOSCOW, 18 November (BelTA) – The Gomel and Kaliningrad oblasts have signed an agreement on trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation. The document was signed by the regions’ chairmen Alexander Yakobson and Georgy Boos during the Gomel delegation’s visit to the Russian region, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Kaliningrad government. The sides also signed agreements on cooperation between the Belarusian Trade and Economic University of Consumer...

MINSK, 16 November (BelTA) – The Belarusian pipeline operator Gomeltransneft Druzhba plans to increase its reservoir capacity up to 550,000 cubic meters by 2014, the company’s Director General Sergei Sosnovsky told a press conference in Minsk on 16 November. At present the reservoir capacity stands at 275,000 cubic meters. The company is carrying out a large-scale program to increase the capacity by 2014. There are plans to build new modern installations that will meet all the necessary...