Archive - Feb 2010

KYIV, 25 February (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is expected to meet with Ukraine’s newly incumbent president Viktor Yanukovich in Kyiv on 25 February.

In 2008-2009 Belarus-Ukraine political relations have been developing rather rapidly. The two countries had an intensive bilateral dialogue at the top level in this period....

MINSK, 24 February (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has congratulated President of the Republic of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves and people of Estonia upon the national holiday – Independence Day, BelTA learnt from the presidential press service.

Alexander Lukashenko expressed his confidence that Belarus and Estonia have a big...

MINSK, 23 February (BelTA) – A session of the UN Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations started at the UN headquarters in New York on 22 February. A Belarusian delegation led by Deputy State Secretary of the Security Council Stanislav Zas takes part in the session, BelTA learnt from the Belarusian...

MINSK, 22 February (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko attended a sport festivity Minsk Ski-Run-2010 in Raubichi on 20 February. The Belarusian President took part in a relay race, BelTA learnt from the presidential press service.

President’s team won the race with the best result – 23 minutes and 11...

MINSK, 19 February (BelTA) – Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan are getting ready to start negotiations on entering the World Trade Organization together as the Customs Union. The statement was made by Anton Kudasov, Deputy Director of the Foreign Trade Department of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, at a press conference on...

MINSK, 18 February (BelTA) – The first Russian cultural center is expected to open in Belarus in the near future, Alexander Fedorov, a counselor of the Russian Embassy in Belarus, told reporters in the Museum of Great Patriotic War in Minsk on 18 February.

The center will promote the projects...

BREST, 18 February (BelTA) – Modern challenges and threats will be taken into account by the border services of Belarus and Russia in ensuring the Union State security, said Vladimir Pronichev, head of the Border Guard Service of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia, at a regular session of...

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MINSK, 18 February (BelTA) – Russian business should more actively penetrate the Belarusian economy, Aleksei Kiselev, Russia’s trade representative in Belarus, said at the first business forum “Russia-Belarus 2010. Consumer goods: new contracts and sales increase”. The forum began in Minsk on 18 February.

According to...

MINSK, 17 February (BelTA) – Representatives of the Customs Union of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan signed the protocol of intent which envisages the creation of the Eurasian Commodity Exchange, BelTA learnt from the Belarus Universal Commodity Exchange (BUCE).

BUCE Chairman Arkady Salikov will represent the interests of the commodity exchanges at...

MOGILEV, 16 February (BelTA) – The Bobruiskagromash joint enterprise in the Zabaykalsky Krai of the Russian Federation intends to produce 100 bailing machines PRF-145 in 2010, BelTA learnt from the Bobruiskagromash marketing department.

The joint venture was set up on the base of the Agroremtech enterprise. Its presentation...