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MINSK, 3 March (BelTA) – In 2010 Belarus will be represented at six international travel exhibitions, BelTA learnt from Valery Boldyrev, Head of the Marketing and Publishing Department of the National Tourism Agency.

In 2009 Belarus took part in three international travel exhibitions. This year the Belarusian travel industry has been...

MINSK, 2 March (BelTA) – Belarus would like to cooperate with the Baltic Sea countries in fight against contraband, Deputy Head of the Belarus State Customs Committee Vasily Dementei stated as he met with a delegation of the Finnish National Board of Customs led by Head of Intelligence Sami Rakshit...

MINSK, 1 March (BelTA) – The Governments of Belarus and the Russian Federation signed an agreement on temporary import and export of transport vehicles, BelTA learnt from the State Customs Committee of Belarus.

The agreement came into force on 25 February 2010.

The major goal of the intergovernmental agreement on temporary import...

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...