BRAGIN REGION, April 25 (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko demanded that the funds saved as a result of abolishment of welfare benefits should be put in the recovery of the Chernobyl-affected regions. The head of state set forth this task when visiting the Komarinsky sovkhoz in the Bragin region. Alexander Lukashenko instructed the government to consider the allocation of these funds. “We need to give these funds, which we have saved, to the regions. The regional...

KOMARIN, April 25 (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is continuing his tour of the Chernobyl-hit regions. The head of state will visit the urban-type settlement of Komarin, the Bragin region, on April 25, BelTA learnt from the president’s press service. Alexander Lukashenko will get familiar with the spring sowing campaign and the implementation of his commissions to provide the Gomel oblast and the Bragin region with gas services. The President will visit the territory...

LOYEV, April 24 (BelTA) – The Belarusian company Polimaster has won the tender to supply radiation-monitoring instruments to emergency response services of Illinois, the USA. Within several years 20,000 devices will be supplied to the USA, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko was told during his visit to the coast guard unit Loyev of the Gomel border guard regiment on April 24. The regiment uses Polimaster-made radiation-monitoring instruments, too. Polimaster’s stationary...

LOYEV REGION, April 24 (BelTA) – The construction of brickworks will be one of the key issues on the agenda of the President’s visit to the Loyev brickworks during his working trip to the Gomel oblast, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Belarusian head of state. The agenda will also include such issues as resource- and energy saving, quality of products, national manufacture of construction materials, export and import substitution, creation of new jobs, development of small and...

MINSK, April 24 (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is making a working trip to the Gomel oblast, BelTA learnt from the president’s press service. Every year the head of state is visiting the Chernobyl-hit regions on these days. Alexander Lukashenko will get familiar with the socio-economic development of the Loyev region, the manufacture of construction materials in the region and will visit one of the Gomel border subdivisions. БЕЛТА

MINSK, April 23 (BelTA) – The state will do its utmost so that we would survive all the hardships and become even stronger and united than before, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said as he delivered the State of the Nation Address to the Belarusian people and the National Assembly. The main theme of the Address is “Wellbeing of the native land depends on everyone and all”. The head of state said that without any turmoil and social tensions, in a relatively short period of...

MINSK, April 21 (BelTA) – Relations between the Belarusian and Russian ministries of defence are an example of cooperation that civic authorities of the two countries should follow, said President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko as he met with Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov on April 21. The head of state remarked: “I believe there are no big problems in cooperation between authorities in matters relating to the protection of our common Fatherland. We don’t have problems...

MINSK April 17 (BelTA) – Belarus is capable of establishing good relations with the EU, without middlemen, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said as he met with Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic Karel Schwarzenberg in Minsk on April 17. “Being interested in cooperation with the European Union, we have repeatedly stated that we do not need middlemen in the relations between Belarus and the EU. We are capable, if there is such will on the part of Europe, of establishing good...

MINSK, April 16 (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has demanded that all development goals envisaged by the five-year plan should be achieved despite the complicated conditions. The President made the relevant statement as he made personnel decisions on April 16, the press service of the head of state told BelTA. “There is virtually no time to sit and think about it. We have less than two years before the five-year term ends. The milestones we have set are very hard to...

MINSK, April 16 (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has demanded that all development goals envisaged by the five-year plan should be achieved despite the complicated conditions. The President made the relevant statement as he made personnel decisions on April 16, the press service of the head of state told BelTA. “There is virtually no time to sit and think about it. We have less than two years before the five-year term ends. The milestones we have set are very hard to...