On 8 April, on the second day of the official visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Alexander Lukashenko attended the wreath-laying ceremonies at the Monument of Fallen Heroes and the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi. After that the President of Belarus had a short guided tour of the Ho Chi Minh Museum, BelTA was told in the press service of the Belarusian leader. On April 8 Alexander Lukashenko also met with Vietnamese graduates of Belarusian institutions of higher education,...

President Alexander Lukashenko has congratulated the staff of City Clinical Hospital No. 9 of Minsk who have successfully performed the first liver transplantation in the history of Belarusian surgery, BelTA was told in the press service of the head of state. “This unique surgery has been a true triumph of domestic medicine which has gained wide international recognition,” the President said in his message of congratulations. “This impressive achievement has become possible due to...

Belarus and Vietnam can increase trade almost ten times in two or three years and this is the goal the countries want to achieve, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said during a meeting with Secretary General of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nong Duc Manh. In 2007, the bilateral trade amounted to $63.3 million what, as Alexander Lukashenko believes, is not enough. The President of Belarus said that during the talks with his Vietnamese counterpart they agreed that there are no...

Belarus intends to increase trade with Vietnam, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview to Vietnamese media. According to the head of state, the level of the present trade relations does not correspond to the potential that the two countries possess. This is why the increase in the bilateral trade is the most important goal of the visit of the President of Belarus to Vietnam. “Despite highly successful political relations and the relations between the nations, we do...

Relations with the US and EU will normalize, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview to the Vietnamese media. “We do not want to run afoul of anyone: neither of the East, nor of the West. I think that the relations with the Americans and the EU will be normalized”, the Belarusian head of state underlined. He noted that “efforts are made to drive Belarus into a corner. Those efforts are futile. We will find markets for our products”, the President stated. The...

“Protecting the border of the Republic of Belarus, we are protecting the western border of the Belarus-Russia Union State,” said the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, at a meeting on combat training of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus on April 3. “We are not rattling the sabre, and I would like to emphasise this. Unfortunately we cannot say that peace and stability reign outside Belarus. The latest developments prove this point. The Nato has big plans about the...

Belarus and Khabarovsk agreed to launch exports of Belarusian equipment, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of Belarus Andrei Popov told a news briefing in Minsk on April 3. A delegation of the Khabarovsk krai headed by deputy chairman of the government- minister of economic development and foreign links Alexander Levintal concluded a visit to Belarus on April 3. On March 31 – April 1 the Russian delegation was in Minsk, on April 2-3 in Mogilev. The delegation was composed of...

Poland’s decision to simplify trips for people from the frontier regions meets the interests of the two countries, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Andrei Popov told a news briefing on April 3. He noted the importance of this issue and reminded that it was Belarus who introduced a set of initiatives to develop the Belarusian-Polish dialogue in spring last year. One of the initiatives was to simplify the mutual trips of citizens, Andrei Popov said. “As for the document, which, as mass...

Irish Greenfield Project Management Ltd intends to invest EUR65 million in bio-ethanol production in Belarus, BelTA learnt in the company. The project is being carried out in line with the cooperation agreement concluded between the Irish company and Belbiopharm Concern. The project will involve two Belarusian manufacturers – Bobruisk hydrolysis plant and Mozyr Ethanol. When the bio-ethanol productions are launched, the Mozyr facility is projected to produce 550 million liters of...

The National Bank of Belarus projects that the rate of exchange of the national currency will be Br2100 per US dollar at the end of 2008, Chairman of the Board of the National Bank Piotr Prokopovich said at an opening of the session of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly. In Q1 2008, the Belarusian ruble strengthened as against US dollar by 0.2% or Br5. “The national currency will be growing stronger. I think we will reach the rate of exchange of Br2100 by the end of the...