Новости за 12.03.2024

On the whole, about 50 kinds of mineral resources have been discovered in Belarus. The country is in Europe’s top 10 in terms of their availability. However, Aleksandr Lukashenko is against self-complacency.

According to the secretary general, one of the most important goals of the training session is to adjust the procedure for collective anticrisis actions and evaluate their effectiveness taking into account provisions of the resolution on measures to develop a crisis response system.

In January-February 2024, foreign companies concluded more than 1,500 transactions to purchase Belarusian goods for a total of $170 million. In the same period last year, the number of transactions was 155 to the total amount of $14 million.

"An agreement was reached to start a dialogue on further visa facilitation in order to increase mutual tourist flows. Sergei Aleinik expressed gratitude to his counterpart for his consistent support for Belarus' accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and for his principled positive position on our country's accession to BRICS," the press service said.

Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Aleinik held talks with Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in New Delhi.

Ruslan Parkhamovich said: “Unfortunately, we cannot operate without imports now. The share of import may be small, only 15% of the raw materials but it is there. This is why the main task for the near future is to address the matter of import substitution.”

Andrei Khudyk said: “On the whole, in 2023 the output of the mining industry totaled 104.3% as against 2022. The import of mineral raw materials keeps steadily declining from 6.9 million tonnes in 2017 to 1.150 million tonnes in 2023.”

Belarus and Russia have adopted a set of measures to improve transport communication between the countries, Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Dmitry Krutoi said during a meeting of the High-Level Group of the Council of Ministers of the Union State on 12 March.

Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Dmitry Krutoi spoke about the most promising areas of cooperation between the two countries as he addressed the meeting of the High-Level Group of the Council of Ministers of the Union State,.

“Logistics is an important area. We increased cargo transportation through the transport corridors of Russia by 1.9 times last year. We are not stopping there, the growth in the first two months under the agreements signed between our transport departments is almost 25% of the past two years’ highest base,” Dmitry Krutoi said.

Belarusian Sports and Tourism Minister Sergei Kovalchuk has congratulated the Belarusian national beach soccer team on its successful performance at the 2024 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

The first thing the president pointed out is how much oil was extracted in Belarus in the USSR times: about 8 million tonnes per annum or about 9 million tonnes according to some sources. The specialists, who were present at the conference, confirmed the figures.

The agreement on mutual recognition of electronic digital signatures between Belarus and Russia is in a high degree of readiness, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk told the media after the meeting of the High-Level Group of the Council of Ministers of the Union State,.

Belarusian producers will be given access to financial support instruments in Russia, Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Dmitry Krutoi said during a meeting of the High-Level Group of the Council of Ministers of the Union State.

The agreement on mutual recognition of visas between Belarus and Russia is to come into force at the end of the year, Belarus’ Ambassador to Russia Dmitry Krutoi said at the meeting of the High-Level Group of the Council of Ministers of the Union State.

The 2024 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup was held in the United Arab Emirates on 15-25 February. Belarus went through the group stage without defeat, beating Senegal (6-4), Japan (3-1) and Colombia (4-1).

Dmitry Krutoi said: "According to calculations of the Belarusian Economy Ministry, the realization of the main guidelines will allow increasing the GDP of our country by $8 billion. Let me remind you that the GDP grew by 3.9% last year.”

MTZ started developing industrial tourism in 2017 with one tour per day. “Today we offer four tours per day from Monday to Saturday. Over 15,000 people visited MTZ last year,” Sergei Sidorovich said.

“At present over 130 enterprises and organizations promote this kind of tourism. They have a certain base, accomplishments, and motivation to develop this kind of tourism. Over 200,000 people visited industrial tourism sites last year,” Oleg Andreichik said.

Igor Lutsky said: “I’d like to note that certainly, there is a personnel issue, a personnel problem. We just have to pay more attention to the education institutions that train reporters. We have to pay more attention to the relevant higher education institutions that train specialists for economy and law."

The head of state said: “I am told that as of today the commercial reserves of Belarusian oil make up about 45 million tonnes. In 2016-2023 the reserves grew by 14 million tonnes, including by 2.5 million tonnes in 2023 alone. It is a record high of the last 40 years."

We need an uniform minerals development control policy, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at a meeting to discuss the state and prospects of the mining industry and geological exploration works on 12 March.

“Our common goal is not only to make products with maximum use of domestic raw materials. There are three whales, three drivers of growth that will help us develop further. They are efficiency, import substitution and export,” the president said.

Belarus needs to intensively and effectively develop mineral deposits, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said.

The talks between Minister Sergei Aleinik and Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Chemicals and Fertilizers of India Mansukh Mandaviya are taking place in the Indian capital.