Business contacts, investment and industrial cooperation were the key issues of a meeting between Gomel oblast and Moscow representatives in Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI). The meeting took place in the context of a visit of Gomel delegation to Moscow on April 4-7, BelTA was informed in the MCCI press-centre. Muscovites get to know Gomel goods at traditional fairs. During the negotiations the sides discussed another way of promoting Gomel products – through chain stores....

Gomel region collective farms have got down to the spring sowing campaign. In 12 out of 21 districts certain land plots are prepared for sowing. So far 1,500 hectares have been cultivated. Bragin district has already managed to sow 10 hectares with oats, head of the plant cultivation department of the region administration’s agriculture and food committee Mikhail Kolesnikov told BelTA. He said, only 5 per cent of the region’s machinery is used due to excessive soil moisture. The...

Belarusian agrarians will receive 680 “Belarus” tractors and 200 MAZ trucks under leasing contracts until the spring harvest, deputy director of the republican association Belagroservice Leonid Drozd told BelTA. According to him, the company agreed with MAZ and MTZ upon the supplies of equipment in accordance with the schedule to send in into service fro the very first days of the harvest. The agrarians will pay for the equipment by means of credits and resources of the republican fund...

“The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Federal Space Agency of Russia have coordinated a draft new joint space program”, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Mikhail Myasnikovich informed today at the IT congress Tibo-2006. He said that the procedure of coordination was completed on Tuesday, April 4. “Belarus has shared its ideas about the new program with Roscosmos and worked out the project on its part,” Mikhail Myasnikovich...

Recuperation and sanatoria treatment of children affected by the Chernobyl accident is one of the most important directions of the social policy in Belarus, first deputy chairman of the Chernobyl committee under the Council of Ministers Vladimir Chernikov has told reporters today. He informed that in line with the legislation more than 311 thousand people, including more than 258 thousand children, affected by the Chernobyl catastrophe are entitled to free sanatoria treatment and...

The spring sowing field works are expected to take 10-12 days this year. By April 25 the sowing campaign will be completed in the country, minister of agriculture and foodstuffs Leonid Rusak told reporters today. He noted that “the sowing season has not started as expected due to weather conditions”. Usually the spring field work peak in the first decade of April. So far only Gomel and Brest oblasts have started selective reseeding and adding fertilizers in perennial plants. In terms of...

Today at a meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Belarus Gaziz Aldamzharov Alexander Lukashenko pointed to absence of problems in both political and diplomatic relations between Belarus and Kazakhstan. “We have absolutely no problems. I think we will never do”, he stressed. According to the Belarusian leader, the two countries have similar positions on the issues of the international agenda. “Kazakhstan has always supported us, however difficult...

The ceremony of inauguration of president of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko will be held on April 8, 2006, BelTA was informed in the presidential press service.

A “colour revolution” failed in Belarus because the power is strong and effective here, because the Belarusian people look into the future with confidence and link their lives with this power, aide to the president – chief of the main ideology department of the presidential administration of the Republic of Belarus stated in an interview with the TV program “Hard Talk” on the First Channel. He cited the British paper “Guardian” which on the eve of the elections wrote: “Would...

Chairman of the Union State Supreme State Council, president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko extended congratulations to president of Russia Vladimir Putin on the 10th anniversary of the Unity Day of the Belarusian and Russian nations which is marked on April 2, BelTA has been told in the press service of the Belarusian leader. “Ten years ago Belarus and Russia made a right choice in favour of integration and union. That was the only right step meeting the interests of the two brotherly...