MINSK, 10 October (BelTA) – The Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus approved the bill on ratifying the agreement on secret information protection within the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States at the session on 9 October, BelTA has learned. The document clearly specifies the terms used in the agreement, forms of cooperation between the states parties to the agreement in protecting secret information in CIS agencies, protection measures and...

BREST, 3 October (BelTA) – Poland considers Belarus as a strategic partner in the area of transport and logistics, BelTA learned from Vice Prime Minister, Economy Minister of Poland Janusz Piechocinski on 2 October. Janusz Piechocinski stressed that his meeting with Vice Prime Minister of Belarus Mikhail Rusyi in Brest earlier on 2 October had been sincere and friendly and had confirmed the good relations between the countries. "We consider Belarus as a strategic partner in the sphere of...

MINSK, 26 September (BelTA) – Experts of the World Bank have given recommendations regarding corporate management to the Development Bank of the Republic of Belarus (DBRB) since the Belarusian bank is now in charge of coordinating lending to government programs and arranging tenders for these purposes, the DBRB press service told BelTA. According to the source, the World Bank specialists presented the most successful experience of the operation of development institutions in various...

MINSK, 19 September (BelTA) – Belarusian diplomats are keeping track of the situation with the detainment of the Belarusian national in Nepal. The information was released on the ONT TV channel, BelTA has learned. A 25-year old resident of Zhodino has been in prison in Katmandu for four days already. The woman came to Nepal as a volunteer to take part in the construction of schools for local children and to teach English. In a video made from a hidden camera in the prison she complained...

MINSK, 22 August (BelTA) – This year Belarus will harvest more than 10 million tonnes of grain, corn included, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Vladimir Grakun told a press conference, BelTA has learned. "Today we can say that the harvest campaign in the country is complete. Less than 15,000 hectares under crops remain unharvested in Vitebsk Oblast. All other regions have finished harvesting. Belarus cropped 9,167,000 tonnes of grain (excluding corn and cereal),"...

ZASLAVL, 15 August (BelTA) - The 6th World University Championships in Canoe Sprint took start at the National Olympic Rowing Center in Zaslavl, Minsk Oblast on 14 August. Vice Premier Anatoly Tozik declared the competitions open in an official solemn ceremony, BelTA has learned. The Vice Premier greeted the participants and guests of the championships on behalf of the Belarusian government. Anatoly Tozik wished athletes a fair competition in comfortable conditions as well as world,...

MOSCOW, 8 August (BelTA) – Russia will supply Belarus with 5.85 million tonnes of oil to Belarus in the fourth quarter of 2014. The agreement was reached in a meeting between Prime Minister of Belarus Mikhail Myasnikovich and Energy Minister of Russia Alexander Novak in Minsk, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Russian Energy Ministry. The talks were focused on additional supplies of the Russian oil to Belarus in Q4 2014 and the balance of oil stock and oil products for the...

MINSK, 1 August (BelTA) - The three-party contact group (Ukraine-OSCE-Russia) set up to resolve the crisis in Ukraine met with representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in Minsk on 31 July. The group reached agreement on two main issues under discussion, i.e. to secure safe access to the Boeing crash site for international experts and an immediate release of people held hostage, runs the press release of the Foreign Ministry of Belarus on the results of the Minsk...

MINSK, 25 July (BelTA) - Belarus is among 16 countries where women's human development index is equal to or exceeds that of men's, reads the new UNDP National Human Development Report 2007-2014, BelTA has learned. The gender development index (GDI) introduced in the 2014 Human Development Report, which measures the level of the gender gap between women and men in 148 countries, shows that the women's development index is equal to or exceeds that of men in 16 countries (Argentina,...

MOSCOW, 18 July (BelTA) – Sergei Sidorsky, member of the collegium (minister) of industry and agriculture of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), promised that Portuguese investors will get all-round support in setting up new production facilities in the Customs Union, BelTA learned from the press service of the EEC Commission after the meeting of the EEC delegation led by Sergei Sidorsky with the representatives of the Investment and Foreign Trade Agency under the aegis of the...