GOMEL, 18 August (BelTA) – The 39th International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD 09) will take place in Gomel on 4-9 September, BelTA learnt from the ideology department of the Gomel town executive committee. Attending the forum will be nearly 100 distinguished scientists from Europe, North and South America, Asia and the CIS countries. The symposium has been organized by the National Academy of Sciences, the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia), the Joint...

GOMEL, 17 August (BelTA) – The Seismotekhnika company, the Production Association Belorusneft structural subdivision, supplied another consignment of geophysical equipment to Venezuela, the company’s press service told BelTA. Belarusian specialists have already started to assemble the equipment in Venezuela. Venezuelan specialists who underwent the relevant courses in Gomel will partake in the assembling as well. The relevant equipment was installed in the Venezuelan-Belarusian company...

GOMEL, 10 August (BelTA) – Gomselmash will fulfill the yearly plan of delivering machine sets for assembling grain harvesters to Kazakhstan by 20 August, BelTA learnt from director of the company’s marketing centre Vladimir Frolov. Upon the agreement between Gomselmash and Agromashholding-Kazakhstan, the Kostanay diesel plant is to assemble 200 machines, up 3.5 times from a year before; 170 machine sets have already been dispatched. “It was previously arranged that all the machinery...

MOZYR, 30 July (BelTA) – In 2010, Mozyr Oil Refinery will complete the second phase of reconstruction worth $479 million, director general of the company Anatoly Kupriyanov told reporters on 30 July. At present, the company is constructing a gasoline hydrodesulphurization complex which capacity will be 1 million tonne a year. The complex is expected to be launched in Q1 2010. In Q2 2010, Mozyr Oil Refinery will launch a hydrogen production complex with the capacity of 45,000 tonnes a year....

GOMEL, 30 July (BelTA) – In August this year, Gomselmash intends to take part in the exhibitions of agricultural machinery of the EU countries which will be held in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, BelTA learnt from Igor Korotkevich, head of the sales department of the company. Agrokomplex 2009 Exhibition will be held in Slovakia on 20-23 August. The Zeme Zivitelka International Agricultural Exhibition will be held in the Czech Republic from 27 August to 1 September. Gomselmash intends...

MOZYR, 30 July (BelTA) – The Mozyr oil refinery calls for the abolishment of the duty on Russian oil supplied to Belarus, director general of the company Anatoly Kupriyanov told reporters on 30 July. “There should be no special oil duty in the Union State of Belarus and Russia,” he said. The two countries are involved in creation of the trilateral Customs Union. The package of documents that will be signed should provide for the abolishment of theses duties, Anatoly Kupriyanov...

GOMEL, 21 July (BelTA) – Chairman of the State Customs Committee of Belarus Alexander Shpilevsky and Chairman of the State Customs Service of Ukraine Anatoly Makarenko have signed the protocol of the first meeting of the Belarus-Ukraine working group for customs cooperation. The meeting was held at the Vystupovichi-Novaya Rudnya crossing point on 14 July. The chiefs of the customs authorities of the two countries met at the Novaya Guta-Novye Yarylovichi crossing point in the Gomel region on...

GOMEL, 21 July (BelTA) – The Gomel oblast has received more than 540 drug boxes for drug awareness programmes among teenagers, BelTA learnt form Alexander Vasiltsov, a deputy chairman of the commission for juvenile delinquency of the Gomel oblast executive committee. A drug box includes 10 printed information materials provided by the Swedish National Association for a Drug-free Society (RNS) and with financial support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)....

MINSK, 16 July (BelTA) - In H1 2009, Belarus pumped 44.8 million tonnes of oil, up 2.3 from the same period last year, BelTA learnt from the National Statistics Committee. In H1 2009, Belarus transported around 26.5 billion cubic metres of gas, down 29.2% from H1 last year. Gas is transported in Belarus via Beltransgaz networks and Yamal-Europe gas pipeline. Oil is pumped by Gomeltransneft Druzhba and the Novopolotsk Oil Transportation Company Druzhba. БЕЛТА

GOMEL, 15 July (BelTA) – The Rogachev powdered milk plant is set to supply over 100 tonnes of whole milk powder to Tajikistan in July-August 2009, BelTA learnt from Deputy Director General of the company Nikolai Kohonov. He informed that the first samples of the whole milk powder produced by the plant had been recently dispatched to Mongolia. Soon after that, the Mongolian side placed an order for 50 tonnes of milk powder. The further cooperation prospects will become clearer after this...