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No queues at Belarusian-Polish border checkpoint Kozlovichi-Kukuryki

There are no queues at the border checkpoint Kozlovichi-Kukuryki at the Belarusian-Polish border, the press service of the Belarusian Transport and Communication Ministry told BelTA.

At 9 a.m. on February 4 the queue for entering Belarus through the border checkpoint Berestovitsa was 5 km long or 230 vehicles. The queue at...

Month of French Language to be held in Belarus in March

The Month of the French Language will be held in Belarus in March, BelTA learnt from Jean-Louis Pelletan, Cultural and Cooperation Counsellor of the French Embassy in Belarus. According to him, the year of 2008 will be rich in various cultural events organised by the French diplomatic mission in Minsk...

Belarus adopts national strategy of development and management of conservation areas by 2015

The government of Belarus issued Resolution No. 1920 to approve the national strategy of development and management of conservation areas by 2015.

As BelTA was told in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, the document is aimed at forming such a system of conservation areas which would cover various...

Sergei Sidorsky urges further measures to develop Union State

Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky urged taking further measures to develop the Union State. He made this statement during a meeting with Prime Minister of Russia Viktor Zubkov.

Sergei Sidorsky said that Belarus-Russia integration will be accelerated by the decisions taken by Belarusian head of state Alexander Lukashenko at...

Belarus fixes new prices for natural, liquefied gas

New prices for natural and liquefied gas in Belarus have been set up from January 1, 2008 due to Resolution #69 of the Council of Ministers, BelTA learnt from the Council of Ministers’ Office.

In winter the price for natural gas in houses, flats and cottages fitted with gas...

President will not let anyone destabilize situation in Belarus

It is inadmissible to let the opposition, advancing “business protection” slogans, destabilize the situation in Belarus, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on January 22.

“Money and investors do not like wandering around squares and uproar and it seems like the opposition needs destabilization. That is why we cannot let peaceful...

SwedBank eyeing Belarus’ banking sector

One of Scandinavia’s biggest banks, SwedBank from Sweden, is mulling over an opportunity of arriving in the Belarusian market. Many of the Bank’s clients, among them are several biggest companies of Sweden, would like to start business in Belarus, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the...

Cooperation with China named a priority of Belarus’ foreign policy

Cooperation with China is a priority of Belarus’ foreign policy, Defence Minister of Belarus Leonid Maltsev said on January 16 as he met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to Belarus Wu Hongbin, the press service of the Belarusian Defence Ministry told BelTA.

“Based on principles...

Foreign Ministry: Belarus attaches great importance to ECOSOC role in energy security

Belarus attaches great importance to the role of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in such areas as protection of children, counteracting human trafficking, energy security, forests preservation, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Belarus.

On January 14, 2008 Permanent Representative of the Republic of...

Belarus President names 2008 key year for implementing five-year national development programme

2008 will be the key and determining year for implementing the entire five-year programme for the social and economic development of Belarus, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said during the state award ceremony on January 14.

“It is a pleasure to start a new year by congratulating the country’s best people,”...

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