MINSK, 15 January (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko will hold a session to discuss the draft state program for the social and economic development and integrated natural resources management of Pripyat Polesie in 2009-2015, BelTA learnt from the presidential press service. The major developers of the program are the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB), the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, the...

MINSK, 14 January (BelTA) – Belarus is interested in boosting the comprehensive cooperation with Poland, Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Ivan Bambiza said at the second session of the joint Belarus-Poland Economic Cooperation Commission on 14 January, BelTA has learnt. “I am convinced that the Polish side shares our views. However concrete effective mechanisms are needed to achieve this goal, and the today’s session can be viewed as one of such tools,” Ivan Bambiza said. The...

MINSK, 11 January (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko urged to intensify the work on developing a new wording of the national security concept. The Belarusian head of state made this statement during a session on the military security of the state on 11 January. According to the head of state, the world is undergoing dramatic transformations. New centers of power, intense competition for the access to the natural resources, tough competition among the models of social...

MINSK, 11 January (BelTA) – Belarusian businessmen plan to visit the town of Saragossa, Spain, on 8-12 February, BelTA learnt from the Minsk office of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The visit will center on the 36th international agricultural exhibition FIMA AGRICOLA 2010. The Belarusian delegation is expected to get familiar with the latest achievements in agriculture, equipment and technologies. Representatives of the Belarusian companies also plan to establish new...

MINSK, 6 January (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has signed the bills on ratifying the package of 13 international agreements that make up the legal base of the Customs Union within the EurAsEC, BelTA learnt from the presidential press service. In particular, the Belarusian President has signed the bills on ratifying the protocol on terms and application of tariff duties different from the unified customs tariffs in exclusive cases. The protocol is aimed at the common...

MINSK, 5 January (BelTA) – A Belarusian delegation is expected to travel to Moscow today to continue negotiating this year’s oil supplies, Press Secretary of the Belarus Prime Minister Alexander Timoshenko told BelTA. The delegation includes Chairman of the Belarusian petrochemical concern Belneftekhim Valery Kazakevich, Deputy Economy Minister Anatoly Filonov. They are supposed to finalize the protocol to the Belarus-Russia intergovernmental agreement on 12 January 2007. According to...

GOMEL, 4 January (BelTA) – The Russian oil is transported via the Belarusian part of the long-distance pipeline Druzhba as usual. The company Gomeltransneft Druzhba of the Belarusian petrochemical concern Belneftekhim operates in line with daily oil transportation timetable that has been agreed with the Russian side, Gomeltransneft Druzhba Deputy Director General Pavel Karpovich told media on 4 January. In the four days of the new year over 800,000 tonnes of hydrocarbons has been pumped to...

MINSK, 30 December (BelTA) – Belarus does not abandon its ambitions in the economy and social sphere and is determined to overcome the negative impact of the global financial and economic crisis as soon as possible in order to restore the pre-crisis economic growth level and improve the well-being of people, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview with representatives of central and regional mass media of Belarus on 30 December, BelTA has learnt. The head of state...

GOMEL, 29 December (BelTA) – Starting 2 February 2010 the Belarusian and Ukrainian customs services will start testing the preliminary data sharing system related to the goods and transport vehicles transported via the joint border. Chairman of the Belarus State Customs Committee Alexander Shpilevsky and Chairman of the Ukrainian State Customs Service Anatoly Makarenko reached the relevant agreement in Novaya Guta – Novye Yarylovichi border checkpoint on 29 December. The introduction...

MINSK, 28 December (BelTA) – In Belarus everything necessary for a happy life and creative upbringing of children is available, said President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko in his speech at the New Year charity performance held for children at the Palace of the Republic on 28 December. The head of state told the children that “In this complicated time when we build our country, we do our best to create conditions to allow you to grow up as smart, beautiful and happy people who will...