MINSK, 8 January (BelTA) – The Republic of Belarus and the European Union have signed agreements on facilitating visa procedures and on readmitting the individuals staying without an authorization, BelTA has learned. The ceremony took place in Brussels, Belgium. The agreements were signed by Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei, Croatian Internal Affairs Minister, Deputy Prime Minister Davor Bozinovic (Croatia presides over the European Council now), and European...

MINSK (BelTA) – Requirements for hotels and inns and their personnel will be changed in Belarus, the press service of the State Standardization Committee of Belarus told BelTA. The Belarusian State Institute for Standardization and Certification (BelGISS) has come up with a draft new state standard for hotel services. The draft document stipulates the requirements Belarusian hotels have to meet to get a certain number of points. The document applies to virtually all hospitality businesses...

MINSK(BelTA) – The implementation of three projects within the framework of the European Union's Twinning program may begin in Belarus in 2020, BelTA learned from Head of the Political, Economic, Press and Information Section of the Delegation of the European Union to Belarus Evelina Schulz on 17 December. An official presentation of the second project that will be implemented in Belarus within the framework of the Twinning program took place in Minsk on 17 December. It will be implemented...

MINSK, 11 December (BelTA) – The 10th edition of the Minsk International Christmas Opera Forum will take place in the Belarusian capital on 12-18 December, First Deputy Director General of the Bolshoi Theater of Belarus Vladimir Rylatko told the media in Minsk on 10 December, BelTA has learned. The forum will be opened by a premiere of the season, Alexander Borodin's epic Prince Igor directed by Galina Galkovskaya and conducted by Alexander Anissimov. On 12 December, the lead male roles...

BELGRADE (BelTA) – Belarusian companies have signed contracts worth $120 million in Serbia, BelTA learned from Chairman of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vladimir Ulakhovich after a Belarusian-Serbian business forum on 3 December. The official said: “The total sum of the contracts that have been signed is roughly $120 million. We are talking about the export of Belarusian products. It is quite a good result because, unfortunately, our trade turnover is rather modest.”...

SMOLEVICHI DISTRICT (BelTA) – HESS Great Stone, a subsidiary of the Swiss company Carrosserie HESS AG, is implementing a project to produce electric passenger vehicles in the China-Belarus industrial park Great Stone. A ceremony to launch the production premises and also to assign it the status of a Great Stone resident company took place on 26 November, BelTA has learned. A modular assembly system is at the heart of the production technology. This mode of transport does not release carbon...

VITEBSK, 20 November (BelTA) – The organizers of the International Festival of Arts Slavianski Bazaar want to see new artists at the festival. People have been invited to put forward their proposals in social networks, BelTA learned from the organizers of the festival. The artist should be a newcomer to the festival. “We value every opinion, but some things are not possible due to technical capabilities, the seating capacity of venues, and other factors. We ask people to bear this in...

MINSK, 29 October (BelTA) – A team from Belarus won the international robot technology competition FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai, BelTA learned from the official website of the competition. A total of 189 teams took part in the event. Belarus was represented by two school students and three university students. FIRST Global Challenge is an annual international robot technology competition. The organizer is the International First Committee Association. This year the theme was Ocean...

MINSK(BelTA) – The family of companies residing in the China-Belarus industrial park Great Stone may grow larger with four new residents within the next several weeks, BelTA learned from Head of the Industrial Park Administration Aleksandr Yaroshenko. According to the source, the China-Belarus industrial park Great Stone is now home to 55 companies. The latest declared investments stand at $1.1 billion. Aleksandr Yaroshenko said: “We expect a Swiss resident to arrive by the end of the...

MINSK, 16 October (BelTA) – Belarusian companies will present their products during the international food industry expo UzProdExpo 2019 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, representatives of the National Marketing Center of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told BelTA. The expo is scheduled to take place on 27-29 November. During the expo food producers will be able to establish business contacts with distributors, retailers, and consumers, thus contributing to larger Belarusian export to...