MINSK, 30 August (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is expected to go to Gomel Oblast on a working trip, the press service of the Belarus President told BelTA. The Belarusian head of state is expected to visit the enterprise Experimental Base Krinichnaya. He will hear out a report about how his instructions concerning the construction of a corn calibration plan and enhancement of its output capacity had been fulfilled. The President will be also informed about whether...

MINSK, 26 August (BelTA) – Belarus plans to build new gas pipelines in Gomel, Mogilev and Brest oblasts, reads the energy strategy of the Republic of Belarus through 2020. The text of the document approved by Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 1180 is available at the national legal portal, BelTA has learnt. The priorities singled out in the document include the construction of gas distribution networks from the existing low-loaded stations to large fuel consumers and the conversion to...

MINSK, 26 August (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko views regional cooperation as the basis of the Belarusian-Russian integration. He made this statement as he met with Governor of Kursk Oblast of the Russian Federation Alexander Mikhailov. The Head of State noted with regret that the global financial crisis affected both the bilateral relations and trade. Last year the mutual trade reduced by one third and with some region by 50%. However, owing to close links with the...

MINSK, 25 August (BelTA) – The financing of investment projects in Belarus is expected to go up by 4.5 times within the next five years, Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky said in a meeting with the members of the Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus on 25 August. “Within the next five years the volume of funds envisaged for investment projects in line with the state innovation development program which is currently being drafted will increase by 4.5 times,” Sergei Sidorsky...

GOMEL, 25 August (BelTA) – A session of the joint working group for cooperation between Belarus and Kursk Oblast of Russia took place in Gomel on 25 August. After the session the sides inked a cooperation plan for 2011-2012. The document lays down avenues of cooperation in trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural spheres, BelTA has learned. For the next two years the cooperation will focus on promoting economic contacts. The possibility of erecting the apartment buildings made...

MINSK, 25 August (BelTA) – A delegation of Kursk Oblast led by Governor Alexander Mikhailov is on a visit to Belarus, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Belarus. The delegation includes high-ranking officials of the administration and the office of the Kursk Oblast government, heads of major enterprises and organizations of the region. On 25 August, the delegation is visiting Gomel where it will take part in a session of the joint working group and hold...

MINSK, 24 August (BelTA) – Belarusian MPs will consider the budget bill for 2011 at an extraordinary, fifth session. Vladimir Andreichenko, Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus, briefed President of the country Alexander Lukashenko on the preparations for the session, BelTA learnt from the presidential press service. The MPs will consider a range of important bills that will contribute to the nation's prosperity in 2011, Vladimir Andreichenko said....

MINSK, 19 August (BelTA) – Following instructions of the head of state the Belarus President Administration will start the third phase of a large-scale monitoring of how local level authorities interact with individual citizens, representatives of the Belarus President Administration told BelTA. Higher ranking officials are supposed to take part in it this time. Plenipotentiary representatives of the head of state in Minsk and the oblasts will take part in it. The top-ranking officials...

KALINKOVICHI DISTRICT, 13 August (BelTA) – The Netherlands is ready to share a unique waste processing technology with Belarus. The matter was discussed as Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky met with Paul Marcel Kurpershoek, Ambassador of the Netherlands to Poland with concurrent accreditation to Belarus, on 13 August. The negotiations took place in the town of Kalinkovichi during a working trip of the Belarusian head of government to Gomel Oblast, BelTA has learned. Among other...

KALINKOVICHI, 13 August (BelTA) – The grain cropped in Belarus will be sufficient to meet the domestic needs, and the extra will be sold abroad, Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky told reporters in Kalinkovichi on 13 August. The Premier is on a working trip to Gomel Oblast, BelTA has learnt. The gross grain harvest in Belarus will be a bit lower than expected. The harvest losses are attributed to the severe drought in the east of the country. However, the grain harvest will be...