Archive - Nov 2009

MINSK, 17 November (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko doubts whether Belarus’ interests are well taken care of in Customs Union regulations. The Belarus President made the relevant statement at a cabinet session held on 17 November to discuss the Customs Union formation, BelTA has learned.

“Speaking directly, I am...

MINSK, 16 November (BelTA) – Specialists from Venezuela are getting familiar with the new technologies used by Belarusian arborists to plan, cultivate and procure wood. A group of forestry experts from Venezuela arrived in Belarus on 16 November on a working visit, Press Secretary of the Belarusian Forestry Ministry Ruzhena...

MINSK, 13 November (BelTA) – The interest of foreign investors in Belarus grows by the year, Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov told reporters at Belarus’ Investment and Economic Forum in Minsk on 13 November, BelTA has learnt.

“Foreign investors have a genuine interest in Belarus,” Andrei Kobyakov said. He...

MINSK, 12 November (BelTA) – Belarus and Azerbaijan have sighed a package of the bilateral agreements. The documents were signed in the presence of the presidents of both the countries after their broader participation meeting in Minsk on 12 November.

Alexander Lukashenko and Ilham Aliyev have adopted the joint...

MINSK, 11 November (BelTA) – In October 2009, inflation in Belarus was running at 0.4%, Alexander Lobanov, chief of the main monetary policy and economic analysis department of the National Bank said at a seminar of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly dedicated to the problems and prospects...

MINSK, 10 November (BelTA) – The improvement of the electoral legislation in Belarus will not require introducing changes to the Constitution, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said at a cabinet session held on 10 November to discuss the improvement of the electoral legislation.

“There is no need and no...

KIEV, 6 November (BelTA) – Presidents of Belarus and Ukraine Alexander Lukashenko and Viktor Yushchenko will continue bilateral talks today, 6 November, BelTA has learnt.

The heads of state will have a meeting in Ivano-Frankovsk.

Alexander Lukashenko is set to meet with chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Vladimir Litvin in...

KIEV, 5 November (BelTA) – Relations between Belarus and Ukraine resemble strategic partnership more and more. Alexander Lukashenko made the relevant statement in his speech before the Academic Council of the T. Shevchenko National University of Kiev on 5 November.

“The existing system of political, trade and economic, educational, cultural and...

MINSK, 4 November (BelTA) - Web-based business registration and closing down will become available in Belarus starting 2010, Galina Podrezenok, Head of the United State Register of Corporations with the Belarusian Justice Ministry, told media on 4 November.

After studying international practices the Justice Ministry has put together a draft decree...

MINSK, 4 November (BelTA) – In conditions of the global financial crisis Belarus’ economic development figures are exceedingly better than those of other countries. The statement was made by Klaus Mangold, Chairman of the Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations, as he met with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on...