BREST, 3 October (BelTA) – Poland considers Belarus as a strategic partner in the area of transport and logistics, BelTA learned from Vice Prime Minister, Economy Minister of Poland Janusz Piechocinski on 2 October. Janusz Piechocinski stressed that his meeting with Vice Prime Minister of Belarus Mikhail Rusyi in Brest earlier on 2 October had been sincere and friendly and had confirmed the good relations between the countries. "We consider Belarus as a strategic partner in the sphere of...

MINSK, 26 September (BelTA) – Experts of the World Bank have given recommendations regarding corporate management to the Development Bank of the Republic of Belarus (DBRB) since the Belarusian bank is now in charge of coordinating lending to government programs and arranging tenders for these purposes, the DBRB press service told BelTA. According to the source, the World Bank specialists presented the most successful experience of the operation of development institutions in various...

MINSK, 19 September (BelTA) – Belarusian diplomats are keeping track of the situation with the detainment of the Belarusian national in Nepal. The information was released on the ONT TV channel, BelTA has learned. A 25-year old resident of Zhodino has been in prison in Katmandu for four days already. The woman came to Nepal as a volunteer to take part in the construction of schools for local children and to teach English. In a video made from a hidden camera in the prison she complained...

MINSK, 12 September (BelTA) – Over 3,000 people, who arrived from Ukraine, have sought help of the Belarusian Red Cross Society, with over Br200 million spent to provide that aid, BelTA learned from Yelena Sveshnikova, chief specialist for public relations of the Belarusian Red Cross Society. Yelena Sveshnikova noted that once the number of Ukraine residents fleeing from the warzone started rising, the Red Cross sought to help. People were given food and means of hygiene. Aid was...

MINSK, 5 September (BelTA) – Belarus may earn about $300 million extra by exporting more agricultural products to Russia by the end of the year, BelTA learned from Roman Brodov, Head of the Central Office for Foreign Economic Policy of the Belarusian Economy Ministry, on 4 September. "Our export to Russia has always been rather high. But we are now considering the redistribution of commodity flows, the regrouping of commodity groups that may evolve into some other proposals regarding the...

MINSK, 29 August (BelTA) – The strategy Republic of Belarus 2030: Knowledge Economy Formation will be discussed at the session of the Commission for State Scientific and Technical Policy under the Council of Ministers on 10 September, the press service of the Belarus government told BelTA. Participants of the session are supposed to discuss the main provisions of the strategy and work out decisions to implement them. Results will be reported to the head of state, said the press service....

MINSK, 22 August (BelTA) – This year Belarus will harvest more than 10 million tonnes of grain, corn included, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Vladimir Grakun told a press conference, BelTA has learned. "Today we can say that the harvest campaign in the country is complete. Less than 15,000 hectares under crops remain unharvested in Vitebsk Oblast. All other regions have finished harvesting. Belarus cropped 9,167,000 tonnes of grain (excluding corn and cereal)," Vladimir Grakun...

ZASLAVL, 15 August (BelTA) - The 6th World University Championships in Canoe Sprint took start at the National Olympic Rowing Center in Zaslavl, Minsk Oblast on 14 August. Vice Premier Anatoly Tozik declared the competitions open in an official solemn ceremony, BelTA has learned. The Vice Premier greeted the participants and guests of the championships on behalf of the Belarusian government. Anatoly Tozik wished athletes a fair competition in comfortable conditions as well as world,...

MINSK, 8 August (BelTA) – The Belarusian Railways will demonstrate the new shunter TME3 designed jointly with the Czech company SZ Loko to foreign consumers at InnoTrans in Berlin in September, BelTA learned from the press center of the Belarusian Railways. The primary use of the shunter TME3 is shunting operations on public tracks and house tracks with a rail gage of 1520 mm. "Components and fittings used in the construction of TME3 meet the highest standards in the field of...

MINSK, 1 August (BelTA) - The three-party contact group (Ukraine-OSCE-Russia) set up to resolve the crisis in Ukraine met with representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in Minsk on 31 July. The group reached agreement on two main issues under discussion, i.e. to secure safe access to the Boeing crash site for international experts and an immediate release of people held hostage, runs the press release of the Foreign Ministry of Belarus on the results of the Minsk...