Новости за 18.01.2024

Negotiations with Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad of Algeria Ahmed Attaf focused on cooperation in agriculture, deliveries of Belarusian machines, vehicles, and equipment, manufacturing cooperation projects, and the development of the legal base.

The situation in Palestine was the key item on the agenda. Sergei Aleinik stressed Belarus’ principled stance on the need to cease fire as soon as possible and enable basic conditions for providing humanitarian aid and building lasting peace in the Middle East.

The document specifies 69 projects, steps, and measures aimed at enhancing Belarus’ economic potential, at securing quality indicators by stimulating a proactive attitude, forming personal civic responsibility for reaching high quality of living, and providing information coverage for the Year of Quality.

For example, commercial entities will no longer have to submit a number of documents to the customs service. “We will get the information directly from other government agencies, banks, and so on. A number of documents will be submitted in an electronic form instead of hardcopies,” Vladimir Orlovsky said.

Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Imangali Tasmagambetov and the head of the CIS Anti-Terrorist Center Yevgeny Sysoyev had a working meeting in Moscow on 18 January.

"Nicaragua and the Eurasian Economic Union states have long-standing ties across a broad agenda, and with the active development of the Eurasian economic integration and successful cooperation between the EEC and its partners in Latin America and the Caribbean, it is only natural for us to establish a direct dialogue with the Nicaraguan government," Sergei Glazyev said.

Today these matters are regulated by Belarus president decree No.93 of 14 March 2022 “On additional measures to ensure the stable functioning of the economy” (it was amended in October 2023) and the law on applying special restrictive measures.

"At the previous meeting of the organizing committee, we sketched out the main areas of work and set the tasks. Today we need to look into a number of important issues; one of the main ones is the venue for the 3 July military parade. We need to decide on the options and submit them to the president to make a final choice," Roman Golovchenko said.

The NASB head underlined that the project to launch Belarus’ first remote Earth sensing satellite had been successful and in demand. The satellite is still in orbit. The data the satellite generates is used by 11 ministries and government agencies in Belarus alone. There is demand for this data abroad as well.

"If the West decides to give in to the self-destructive logic, I assure you that Russia and Belarus will stand shoulder to shoulder defending their independence and interests. There is no doubt about that," Sergey Lavrov added.

Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “I’d like to mention one very vivid example. I mentioned McDonald’s for a reason. Sanctions were introduced by Americans. They decided to stop their operations and leave Belarus. The door is open. Feel free to leave. We didn’t stop anyone from leaving and we didn’t force them to leave either."

The Union State is the locomotive of the EAEU. It sets the tone and the course for the further development of the Eurasian Economic Union across many areas, Sergey Lavrov noted.

According to Andrei Kartun, the main drivers of economic growth in Belarus last year were manufacturing, construction and trade.

Sergey Lavrov described the decision at last year's summit in South Africa to expand the number of BRICS members as a particularly important step towards strengthening the BRICS' position on the international stage.

"Last year's economic growth was balanced. We addressed three main tasks: above-average growth of household incomes, low inflation and employment," Andrei Kartun said.

Five Belarusian biathletes competed in the Men 20km Individual Race, which opened the competition program. Dzmitry Lazouski clocked the best time, making only one miss. Second place went to Nikita Porshnev. Eduard Latypov came third.

“I have not signed this document off the cuff. I have one question,” the head of state explained. “Is the situation there really so dire? Do other organizations and construction companies operate smoothly and not have similar problems? Or is it just a start?” the president asked.

"The gross harvest of grain and leguminous crops (weight after processing) amounted to 7.665 million tonnes. In the 2022 season it was 8.693 million tonnes. The largest grain harvest contributor (by storage weight) was Minsk Oblast (1.875 million tonnes).

The document has been published by the national legislation registry. It approves a regulation on the national spatial data infrastructure. The State Property Committee has been entrusted with organizing the creation and development of the national spatial data infrastructure.

"Russia and Belarus are sovereign and independent states," Aleksandr Lukashenko said. “We proceed from this when making certain decisions. And as you can see, we have built the closest allied relations the world has ever known."

Figuratively speaking, it can be accomplished by taking a Russian platform and integrating Belarusian mission equipment with it. “It is not a problem. The problem is whether we need it or not, what the economic benefits will be, and who will pay for it,” the Belarusian leader explained.

The counteraction of capital withdrawal was one of the topics covered by the conference. Aleksandr Lukashenko remarked that Belarus encounters barriers and prohibitions at every turn and has to live and operate in complicated economic conditions.

The government submitted a draft decree to the head of state that suggests introducing a number of changes to appraisal procedures, as well as to the sale of property by owners from unfriendly countries.

"The entire Belarus is helping Donbass today. Various entities, public organizations - everyone is collecting humanitarian aid. Being a link, our foundation is trying to deliver and give it to those who need it right now," Aleksei Talai said.

According to him, during the meeting, the foreign ministers of the NAM countries "expressed support for Palestine and spoke against the illegal restrictive measures". He stressed that the Non-Aligned Movement was stepping up at a time "when imperialism made its choice in favor of wars".