Новости за 04.03.2024

The ambassador and Bellegprom’s management discussed the advancement of manufacturing cooperation with Kyrgyz enterprises, purchasing wool from Kyrgyzstan, participation in projects to set up a textile factory and build a tannery in Bishkek.

On 6 March Oleg Novitsky, Ivan Vagner, Marina Vasilevskaya, Anastasia Lenkova, Tracy Dyson, and Donald Pettit are expected to go to the Baikonur Cosmodrome for prelaunch preparations.

During the meeting Viktor Khrenin outlined the military and political situation in the Eastern Europe region. He mentioned the commonality of approaches towards evaluating challenges and threats in the Central Asia region and spoke highly of Belarus-Uzbekistan military cooperation.

Today every third entrepreneur in Belarus is a woman. “Such positive trends are largely thanks to the purposeful policy of the state, which consistently takes comprehensive measures to ensure that every Belarusian woman can become self-fulfilled in her profession, taking into account her wishes, level of education and competence, provides significant support to families with children,” the minister said.

Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Dmitry Krutoi  talked to the media while on a working trip to Vladimir Oblast, and commented on the construction projects involving Belarusian specialists.

Two Belarusian tennis players will compete in the event’s main draw. These are world number 2 Aryna Sabalenka and world number 30 Victoria Azarenka who is Indian Wells two-time winner (2012, 2016).

The event was attended by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Pakistan Sajjad Haider Khan and Belarusian Deputy Minister of Communications and Informatization of the Republic Anna Ryabova.

"Today, the level of women’s engagement in entrepreneurial business activity in Belarus is at 36.4%. The global average is around 34.1%. For comparison, in the Russian Federation this figure reaches 40%, in Kazakhstan - 43.5%. This means we have room to grow " the minister noted.

The document improves the procedure government agencies and other organizations are supposed to follow in order to switch from peacetime operation to war footing.

Dmitry Krutoi said: “In the last two years Belarus and Vladimir Oblast came up with vivid examples of counteracting the policy of sanctions and of successful realization and execution of import-substitution projects."

Oleg Tomashevich took the lead in the shot put with his first attempt, making it 21.65m in his fifth attempt. This is the athlete’s new personal best, a national indoor record, an Olympic standard, and the season’s eighth result in the world and the fourth one in Europe. Yevgeny Brigi of Belarus won bronze with a throw of 19.19m.

First Deputy Defense Minister - Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan, Major General Shukhrat Khalmukhamedov has arrived in Belarus on an official visit.

About 20 countries will be featured at the 31st edition of the  Minsk International Book Fair, and the Islamic Republic of Iran will be the central exhibitor, Dmitry Makarov, Chairman of the CIS Council of Organizers of Book Exhibitions and Fairs, Executive Director of the Minsk International Book Fair, told journalists in Minsk.

Aleksandr Avdeyev said: “We maintain cooperation to make tractors and loaders. Everyone traditionally knows about this base. But brand new niches have become available now because foreign companies have left and a new manufacturing cooperation market has emerged.”

This time the exhibition was held in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province gathering over 1,500 food producers from all over the world. The BUCE took part in it in order to increase exports of Belarusian agricultural products to the Chinese market and expand the range of participants of exchange trading from this country.

The exhibition will be themed around the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders, the 30th anniversary of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus, the Year of Quality, anniversaries of famous Belarusian writers and poets, etc.

Belarus and Kazakhstan will discuss the possibility of setting up a joint bilateral fund for industrial cooperation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Belarus Yerlan Baizhanov told the media after his meeting with Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko in Minsk on 4 March.

Belarus hopes that Kazakhstan will support Belarus’ aspirations to become a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the summer, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said.

"It is a great honor for me to meet with you," the ambassador said as he addressed the Belarusian head of state. "I regard this as a special sign of your personal attention to the bilateral agenda and relations with Kazakhstan."

Belarus is ready to expand cooperation with Kazakhstan when it comes to creating joint ventures, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with Kazakhstan's Ambassador to Belarus Yerlan Baizhanov.

In their cooperation, Belarus and Kazakhstan can tackle not only sanctions but also any other obstacles, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with Kazakhstan's Ambassador to Belarus Yerlan Baizhanov.

Belarus expects a serious boost in trade with Kazakhstan after Tokayev's visit to Belarus, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with Kazakhstan's Ambassador to Belarus Yerlan Baizhanov in Minsk on 4 March.

Since the launch of the visa-waiver program, Belarus has welcomed a total of 844,341 visitors, including 520,283 citizens of Lithuania, 193,423 citizens and 58,206 non-citizens of Latvia, and 72,429 citizens of Poland.

In 2023 Belarusian manufacturers began supplying 134 new names of products to China, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to China Aleksandr Chervyakov told the ONT TV channel.