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MINSK, 6 July (BelTA) – Belarus is interested in being part of the Customs Union together with Russia and Kazakhstan as well as part of the free trade zone together with the European Union. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko made the statement in an interview with the Austrian newspaper Die...

GRODNO, June 26 (BelTA) – Belarus is ready to step up Belarus-Lithuania cooperation in the areas of tourism and alternative energy and the interregional collaboration, said Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky as he met with his Lithuanian counterpart Andrius Kubilius in Grodno on June 26.

According to the Belarusian...

MINSK, June 25 (BelTA) – Belarus has no unresolved problems with Russia, said President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko as he met with Rostov Oblast Governor Vladimir Chub on June 25.

“Russia has been and is the main strategic ally for our country,” stressed the head of state. “Despite all the gas,...

MINSK, June 19 (BelTA) – Belarus and Lithuania intend to promote joint projects in the area of power engineering and transport as part of the Eastern Partnership initiative, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Evaldas Ignatavicius told media after two-day consultations between the foreign ministries of the two countries...

ASHKHABAD, June 18 (BelTA) - Belarus and Turkmenistan have a great potential for expanding the cooperation, Belarusian head of state Alexander Lukashenko said as he met with President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov on June 18.

The bilateral trade has recently increased 13 times, Alexander Lukashenko said. “But the trade we have...

MINSK, June 16 (BelTA) – Along with trading German businessmen are ready to make investments into the Belarusian economy, said Bernd Pfaffenbach, State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, as he met with the President of Belarus on June 16.

“Even during the previous, harder times we...

MINSK, June 10 (BelTA) – The creation of the united customs space of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan will be the beginning of the recovery from the global crisis and will have good prospects, said President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko as he met with Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Masimov on June...

MINSK, June 9 (BelTA) – Under present-day conditions the EurAsEC countries should remove all existing interstate barriers and exclude application of protective measures in the mutual trade, Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky told reporters in Minsk before leaving for Moscow to participate in the session of the EurAsEC Interstate...

MINSK, June 8 (BelTA) – Belarus will remain intent on stepping up the European vector of cooperation, said President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko as he met with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia Samuel Zbogar on June 8.

“You can rest assured that all the developments in relations with our western...

MINSK, June 5 (BelTA) – As from July 1, 2009 Belarus will be granted the status of observer in the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS). The relevant decision was made unanimously by the 15th session of the CBSS Ministerial Council in Dutch Elsinore, BelTA learnt from representatives of...