Archive - 2010

MINSK, 2 August (BelTA) – Belarus is interested in using Chinese innovative technologies to create new high-tech enterprises in Belarus, Igor Voitov, Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology, told a session of the working commission for scientific and technical cooperation between Belarus and the Chinese province of...

MINSK, 2 August (BelTA) – Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov has been appointed Representative of Belarus in the Council of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB). The relevant decision is contained in Council of Ministers Resolution No 1121 of July 28, 2010.

Economy Minister Nikolai Snopkov has been assigned as...

MINSK, 30 July (BelTA) – The first train with Venezuelan oil is expected to arrive at the Belarusian oil refinery Naftan in the evening of 31 July, Naftan Deputy Director General Nikolai Kolbasenko told BelTA.

Oil will be delivered in several phases within several days. Preparations are in progress to discharge...

MINSK, 28 July (BelTA) – The rate of utilization of funds of the conservation foundations was very low in the first half of 2010, First Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Vitaly Kulik said at a session of the ministry.

“No program has been implemented in full. The...

MINSK, 27 July (BelTA) – Belarus plans to switch into trade surplus by 2013, Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky said at a session of the Council of Ministers.

In H1 2010 the quality parameters of the economic performance have improved, Sergei Sidorsky said. The export outpaced import by 12.9%. In...

MINSK, 26 July (BelTA) – A quality breakthrough in Belarus-Syria relations is a possibility, said President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko as he met with Syria President Bashar al-Assad on 26 July.

“I am convinced that we will considerably expand the bilateral trade and economic ties. We have everything to make it...

MINSK, 23 July (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has instructed Education Minister Alexander Radkov to start Belarus’ accession to the Bologna Process, the press service of the Belarusian head of state told BelTA.

The Bologna Process is supposed to create and improve a Europe-wide higher education space. It will...

MINSK, 21 July (BelTA) – In 2011-2015 Belarus is set to increase the volume of foreign direct investment to $7 billion per year, Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky said at a session of the national organizational committee in charge of the preparation of the 4th All-Belarus People’s Assembly.

The social and...

MINSK, 20 July (BelTA) – Revenues of the Belarusian space industry should reach $1 billion in the future, said President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko as he visited the electronic engineering company Peleng on 20 July.

“The country should have a different image. The industry should advance towards billions [in revenues]. We...

MINSK, 19 July (BelTA) – Belarus urges the countries of the world to establish a closer cooperation to develop science and technologies, in particular, computer science. This statement was made by Belarus’ representative Sergei Sergeyev at a session of the UN Economic and Social Council, BelTA has learnt from the...