Archive - 2011

MINSK, 23 December (BelTA) – President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is confident that Belarus will handle new challenges of today. The President made this statement at a press conference for Belarusian and foreign mass media on 23 December, BelTA has learnt.

As he opened the press conference, the...

MINSK, 14 December (BelTA) - Belarusian MPs ratified the intergovernmental Belarusian-Chinese agreement on the Chinese-Belarusian Industrial Park on 14 December.

The park will be unmatched in Belarus. It will be located in Smolevichi District, Minsk Oblast, and will gradually spread over 80 square kilometers. The park will house new major...

MOGILEV, 7 December (BelTA) – Textile industry leaders from 10 countries will take part in a business forum organized by the Mogotex Company on 9 December, BelTA learnt from the company’s Director General Viktor Matiyevich.

The event will focus on textile innovations. Partaking in the forum will be leaders of the...

YEREVAN, 5 December (BelTA) – Lidia Zablontsaya of Belarus scored 99 points to make it into top three at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011, BelTA has learnt.

Her composition Angels of the Good was praised by the European audience. Lidia was accompanied at the stage by young violinists Filipp Salata...

MOGILEV, 29 November (BelTA) - The State Control Committee for Mogilev Oblast initiated a campaign to study the problems of the youth, BelTA learnt from senior specialist of the State Control Committee (SCC) for Mogilev Oblast Kirill Doroshenko.
The State Control Committee offers students, all young people to share the information...

HANOI, 29 November (BelTA) – Belarus and Vietnam have signed a package of new agreements to boost bilateral cooperation. The documents were signed at the meeting between Belarus Premier Mikhail Myasnikovich and his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung in Vietnam on 29 November, BelTA has learnt.

The two countries inked an...

MOSCOW, 18 November (BelTA) – Following a tripartite meeting in Moscow, the Presidents of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan signed the Declaration of the Eurasian Economic Integration, in which the parties announce the launch of the next phase of integration - the Single Economic Space (SES), BelTA reports.

The document notes that...

MINSK, 16 November (BelTA) – The State Science and Technology Committee (SSTC) of Belarus and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic signed a program on sci-tech cooperation at a thematic session within the Belarus-EU innovation cooperation forum on 16 November, BelTA has learnt.

According to SSTC...

MOGILEV, 16 November (BelTA) - Bureaucratic hurdles still complicate investment activity in Mogilev Oblast, Deputy Chairman of the Mogilev Economy Committee Viktor Krasovsky told BelTA.

In his words, there has been done a lot in the country, and in Mogilev Oblast in particular, to create favorable conditions for business and investment...

MINSK, 15 November (BelTA) - Buyers from Russia and Kazakhstan will be allowed to take part in electronic auctions under government procurement contracts in Belarus, Chairman of the Board of the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange Arkady Salikov told a press conference in BelTA’s press center.

In accordance with the agreement on...