Archive - Dec 2008

The programme “Assistance for voluntary repatriation of migrants to the home country” will be continued in Belarus till May 2009. Implemented by the European Union, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration, the programme was initially supposed to end on December 31, 2008, Yuri...

The Council of Ministers of Belarus issued Resolution No1942 on December 16, 2008 to impose new utility tariffs, BelTA learnt from the Council of Ministers’ Office.

The tariff on engineering service of residential houses will be up 11.8% as compared to the effective tariff. The tariffs on heat energy...

Mogilevkhimvolokno has produced a pilot lot of fatty acid methyl ester (biodiesel fuel) from rapeseed oil, BelTA learnt from chief engineer of the enterprise Alexander Medvedev.

“The production of the pilot lot of fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) has shown that we can launch the commercial production of biofuel provided the...

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...

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...

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,...

The OSCE/ODIHR recommendations given in the final report on the parliamentary elections in Belarus will be carefully studied, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of Belarus Andrei Popov told media.

“We have received the OSCE/ODIHR document through the official channels. The report is being studied by competent Belarusian experts,” he said.

Andrei Popov...

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...

Belarus would like to use the Russian agrarian technologies to the maximum, Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky said at a meeting with Russian Agriculture Minister Aleksei Gordeyev in Minsk on December 11.

The agricultural industries of Belarus and Russia have long-standing relations, “all the issues are constructively addressed, rational decisions...

Belarusian scientists have designed a unique set of equipment for heart surgery without artificial circulation, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB) Piotr Vityaz said during an online conference on the BelTA website.

Unlike foreign-made competitor Octopus the Belarusian novelty can be used...