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The next year’s budget bill has passed its first reading in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus, with the deficit as high as 1.8% of the GDP, BelTA has learnt.

Presenting the bill, Belarusian Finance Minister Andrei Kharkovets noted that in 2009 revenues of Belarus’ consolidated budget...

The President of Syria will visit Belarus. The preparations for the visit were discussed during a meeting between Foreign Minister Sergei Martynov and the chief of the foreign political department of the Syrian Arab Republic Walid al Muallem.

The Foreign Minister of Syria said that the basis for the preparation for...

The Belarusian parliamentarians will take part in the 119th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva on October 13-15, Chairman of the House of Representatives Vadim Popov said at a session of the lower chamber of the Belarusian parliament on October 2.

The assembly is supposed to elect the IPU...

The interest of foreign investors in Belarus is on the rise, Chairman of the German-Belarusian Economic Club Klaus Bayer said in Minsk on October 1 during the opening of the German Economy Day in Belarus.

He remarked the Belarusian government had taken serious measures to improve the investment climate, which is...

The Belarus President called upon OSCE observers not to hurry with giving any opinion about the parliamentary elections in Belarus following the dictate of some country. Belarus “didn’t expect revolutionary declarations”, stressed Alexander Lukashenko as he met with head of the OSCE PA monitoring mission Anne-Marie Lizin on September 30.

“In...

The 4th international investment forum Mogilev Oblast – Region of Open Cooperation will open in Mogilev on October 9, BelTA learnt in the economy committee of the Mogilev Oblast Executive Committee.

The goal of the forum is to promote the Mogilev oblast as the profitable place to set up and...

Most agricultural companies in the Mogilev oblast have finished autumn grain sowing, BelTA learnt from the Agriculture and Food Committee of the Mogilev Oblast Executive Committee.

As of September 29 the oblast had 195,600 hectares of winter grains sown or 100% of the target. 197,500 hectares (101%) of lands has been...

The parliamentary elections are valid in all the 110 constituencies of Belarus, Secretary of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus Nikolai Lozovik told BelTA.

As of 18:00 the voter turnout stood at 66.7%.

In the Brest oblast the voter turnout amounted to 64.2%, the Vitebsk oblast — 77.4%, the Gomel oblast...

In January-August 2008, the Mogilev oblast of Belarus increased the retail turnover by 23.3% to make up Br3.3 trillion, BelTA learnt in the trade and services department of the Mogilev Oblast Executive Committee.

In January-August 2008, the retail turnover has been formed by trade organizations (65.5%), sole traders (34.5%), physical persons...

In January-August 2008 180 industrial enterprises of the Mogilev oblast or 82.6% of the total number increased their output, BelTA learnt from the Economy Committee of the Mogilev Oblast Executive Committee.

Their output accounted for almost 90% of the oblast’s turnout. 17 companies increased their output by 5% at most, 27...