MINSK, 3 December (BelTA) – Emergencies Minister of Belarus Vladimir Vashchenko is taking part in the Conference of the Parties to the Industrial Accidents Convention of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Emergencies Ministry of Belarus. “On 2-5 December Vladimir Vashchenko is taking part in a meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UNECE Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents in Geneva,” the...

MINSK, 21 November (BelTA) – The Belarusian education system will be optimized. All the irrelevant factors will be pruned while the education system will keep the money that has been saved. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko made the statement at the seminar involving students, professors, and graduates of the Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after Maxim Tank on 21 November, BelTA has learned. Alexander Lukashenko remarked that education problems will be looked into at...

MINSK, 13 November (BelTA) – The volume of unused funds of the budget of the Union State of Belarus and Russia increased by more than one third in 2013 to a total of RUB1.5 billion, the press service of the State Control Committee of Belarus told BelTA. A joint session of the boards of the supreme financial audit agencies of Belarus and Russia took place in Moscow on 12 November. It was chaired by Chairman of the State Control Committee of Belarus Leonid Anfimov and Chairwoman of the...

MINSK, 5 November (BelTA) – Belarus’ sixth national communication on climate change will be presented to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC) in February 2015, BelTA learned from Ivan Narkevich, coordinator for international projects of the unitary enterprise Belarusian Research Center Ecology, during the opening of the international seminar on the sixth national communication on the implementation of the UN Framework Convention on...

ABU DHABI, 28 October (BelTA) – Belarus suggests implementing several large-scale investment projects to the United Arab Emirates, BelTA learned from Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to the UAE Roman Golovchenko. “Looking at the UAE, we see not only a market to sell our products but a partner, who is ready and can invest in the implementation of joint projects in Belarus,” said the diplomat. “The UAE invests a lot abroad but in this case we are not talking...

MINSK, 17 October (BelTA) – The declaration of the Year of Youth in 2015 will attract attention to youth issues, First Secretary of the BRSM Youth Union Central Committee Igor Buzovsky told BelTA. “The announcement of 2015 as the Year of Youth will draw the attention to youth matters. There will be an opportunity to consolidate all the opinions on the issues that arise during the work with young people. Keeping in mind the fact that the focus is made on the youth in many areas of...

MINSK, 10 October (BelTA) – Businessmen of Belarus and Turkmenistan should establish tighter cooperation for the sake of actively promoting their products to the markets of the two countries, BelTA learned from Vice Prime Minister of Belarus Anatoly Kalinin on 9 October before the meeting with heads of Belarusian and Turkmen business unions. “Our government agencies have maintained tight cooperation for a long time already while work has yet to be done with regard to cooperation between...

MINSK, 3 October (BelTA) – Political contacts between Belarus and Germany were top on the agenda of the meeting of Belarus’ Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei with Matthias Platzeck, former Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, former Minister-President of Brandenburg, member of the Board of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Chairman of the German-Russian Forum, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry. The parties discussed a possibility to ramp...

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Argentina Viktor Kozintsev met with Foreign Policy Undersecretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina Maria Carolina Perez Colman on 15 September, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Belarus. “The parties talked over the issues related to the expansion of the legal framework between Belarus and Argentina, implementation of joint economic projects, sci-tech cooperation and ties with the...

MINSK, 5 September (BelTA) – Belarus is expected to hold its Days of Culture in Tajikistan in 2015 and host the return Days of Tajikistan Culture in 2016, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Tajikistan to Belarus Kozidavlat Koimdodov told media at the CIS headquarters that played host to an international science-to-practice conference to mark the 20th anniversary of the Constitution of Tajikistan, BelTA has learned. The diplomat stressed that the relations between Tajikistan...