PETRIKOV REGION, 27 April (BelTA) – The newly-elected deputies of the local councils should keep their promises and work with people more, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said as he spoke with the residents of the Petrikov region of the Gomel oblast on 27 April. “I know that the elections were valid in almost all the constituencies. The newly-elected deputies are reasonable people who are able to work. There are also representatives from the opposition,” Alexander Lukashenko...

PETRIKOV REGION, 27 April (BelTA) – All the profits from processing Venezuelan oil should stay in Belarus, said President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko as he visited the Petrikov Region on 27 April. “If even one kopeck leaves the country, you will have only yourself to blame,” Alexander Lukashenko told Director General of Mozyr Oil Refinery Anatoly Kupriyanov. “All the profits should stay in Belarus. They didn’t need to have the oil refined and didn’t need profits. If someone...

CHERVEN REGION, 22 April (BelTA) – The EU mission for regional development is set to visit Belarus next week, attache of the EC delegation to Belarus Janis Aizsalnieks told media. “A mission from Brussels will travel to Minsk next week. It is set to hold negotiations with the Belarusian government on the 2012-2013cooperation prospects,” Janis Aizsalnieks said. In his words, the talks will also cover the issues regarding regional cooperation. “It is a wide notion that includes both...

GOMEL, 21 April (BelTA) – The adoption of Directive No 4 will contribute to raising the investment attractiveness of the Belarusian economy and will also allow domestic businessmen to step up their operation. The opinion was voiced by Deputy Chairman of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Boleslav Pirshtuk as he commented on the Belarus President’s address to the nation and the parliament. “Indeed it is now time to truly emancipate the business initiative,” said Boleslav Pirshtuk....

MINSK, 20 April (BelTA) – The early elections to the local Councils of Deputies will start in Belarus on 20 April, BelTA learnt from Secretary of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Nikolai Lozovik. Polling stations are set to open at 10h00 a.m. The early elections will last for five days: from 20 to 24 April. People will be able to vote from 10h00 a.m. to 2h00 p.m. and from 4h00 p.m. to 7h00p.m. Ballot papers will be distributed due to the list of people eligible for voting at a...

MINSK, 19 April (BelTA) – On behalf of the Belarusian people and himself, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has congratulated President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Hugo Chavez Frias upon the 200th anniversary of the country’s independence, BelTA learnt from the presidential press service. President of Belarus expressed his sincere admiration with Venezuela’s success in carrying out reforms aimed at the creation of a prosperous state. Alexander Lukashenko also...

KYIV, 16 April (BelTA) – In order to enhance industrial cooperation, Belarus and Ukraine have agreed to establish a number of joint companies and enter the markets of third countries, co-chairmen of the Belarusian-Ukrainian intergovernmental commission for trade and economic cooperation Vladimir Semashko and Andrei Kliuyev told media after the commission session in Kyiv on 15 April. Such cooperation is mutually beneficial and promising, the co-chairmen believe. Assembly of harvesters at...

MOZYR REGION, 14 April (BelTA) – The state will provide all the necessary resources to finance a program to promote the Pripyat Polesie despite the fact that it is a large-scale and expensive project, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko told reporters during his working trip to the Gomel Oblast on 14 April, BelTA has learnt. “This program is not that expensive. We will find these Br500 billion, may be Br1 trillion to help local people, to finance the program. We will implement it....

MOZYR REGION, 14 April (BelTA) – The opposition refuses to participate in the elections because it foresees its complete defeat, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko told media on 14 April. “They understand perfectly well that nobody will support them at the elections. But they want to save their face some way and start gibbering that our elections are allegedly non-democratic, that electoral law changes are purely for cosmetic purposes and so on,” said the Belarus President....

MINSK, 26 March (BelTA) – Belarusian parliamentarians will consider a possibility to invite members of the European Parliament to monitor the elections to the local Councils of Deputies that will be held in Belarus on 25 April, BelTA learnt from Sergei Maskevich, Chairman of the House of Representatives’ permanent commission for international affairs and links with the CIS. “The MPs will analyze and discuss this issue,” he said commenting on the recent statement by the MEPs about...