President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko ordered the Council of Ministers and the relevant governmental bodies to conduct balanced economic policy towards businessmen avoiding social complications and political rush, Belarusian Head of State said at a session highlighting the issues of business regulation. “Blaming the global financial crisis the government suggests postponing adoption of amendments to the business activity. The crisis, of course, should be taken into account. In this...

Only export-oriented and competitive companies will be supported by the state, said Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky at a session of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers to discuss the measures to maintain the stability of the country’s key and other enterprises on December 23, BelTA has learnt. The Prime Minister said, “At present, in the conditions of the global financial crisis we are focusing on the implementation of the innovation development programme.” The...

Belarus and Russia are able to settle the issues of mutual interest, Belarusian Head of State Alexander Lukashenko said in a meeting with Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev in the Kremlin on December 22, BelTA informs. “Ahead of our talk I would like to say that there are no problems with settling all Belarus-related issues of Russia in the way it should be done. I think there are absolutely no problems with addressing all Belarus’ issues by the Russian Federation. I am confident that...

On December 19 President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed decree No 689 “Measures to perfect auditing and supervisory activities in the Republic of Belarus”. The press service of the President told BelTA, at present major efforts are put into liberalising all areas of business in order to fulfil the instruction issued by the head of state. In view of multiple complaints of corporations about their inability to operate well due to an excessive number of audits, lack of their...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has commissioned local authorities with the task to use the potential of gas service installation as efficiently as possible, BelTA has learnt. At the ceremony of launching the natural gas supply in Berezino, the Head of State said that local authorities have to think about the ways to use the potential of the gas service installation as efficiently as possible. According to him, the priority task here is to reduce energy consumption. Cutting-edge...

Berezino was the last out of 118 regional centres of Belarus where the natural gas service was installed. Attending the ceremony of launching the natural gas supply network was President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, BelTA informs. The natural gas service was first provided in 1960 when the gas main Dashava-Minsk was put into operation. In the Soviet times the gas service was mainly extended to those settlements that were in the close vicinity of the gas mains because the installation of...

In January-November 2008, Belarus’ GDP totaled Br116.622.8 trillion, up 10.8% in comparable prices over the same period last year, the National Statistics Committee told BelTA. The industrial output was up 29.4%, agriculture – 8.8%, construction – 8.9%, transport and communications – 7.8%, trade – 19.1%. In January-November 2008, the GDP production growth made up 16.7% as against the same point of 2007, agriculture – 9.4%, construction – 22.7%, transport and communications...

Every opportunity should be used to sell Belarusian products, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said during his talk with Berezino residents on December 16. In his words, the global economic crisis is dangerous for Belarus because sales of commodities are shrinking. This is why selling manufactured commodities is the central task. Alexander Lukashenko remarked, 2009-2010 will not be easy years. “We will have to survive these years. After the crisis the strong will be even stronger...

Belarus advocates the new architecture of European security taking into account the interests of the state, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said during a session of the Security Council on December 15. The Head of State said that Belarus remains committed to the goals and ideas of the universal nuclear disarmament, nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction and related technology. Belarus has been expanding its participation in international and regional international security...

After taking over the EurAsEC presidency in October 2008, Belarus has worked out several initiative proposals aimed at enhancing integration processes in the Community, said Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky when a session of the EurAsEC Interstate Council of heads of government was opened in Moscow on December 12. Sergei Sidorsky said that President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko had sent an address to the presidents of EurAsEC states, with copies available to participants of the...