MINSK, 17 June (BelTA) - An efficient compact state apparatus will be created in Belarus by 2020, reads Belarus’ draft social and development program for 2016-2020, which is to be discussed at the 5th Belarusian People’s Congress, BelTA has learned. “The most advanced enterprise will be inefficient only is the management is poor. Therefore, in the current five-year period Belarus, along with the efforts to promote integrated modernization of main industries and to accelerate the...

MINSK, 10 June (BelTA) – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Russia Igor Petrishenko sees prospects for Belarusian exports to the Russian market in the supplies of new types of products. The diplomat made the statement during the ONT TV show on 9 June, BelTA has learned. According to the Ambassador, Belarusian companies have been expanding the assortment of supplies to Russia through modified equipment, new brands of food products, high-technology goods that win the...

MINSK, 3 June (BelTA) – A single antimonopoly body, the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade, is set up on the basis of the Belarusian Trade Ministry. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko signed corresponding decree No. 188 “Concerning antimonopoly regulation and trade bodies” on 3 June, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader. The ministry will include the Pricing Policy Department of the Economy Ministry, antimonopoly and pricing policy departments...

MINSK, 27 May (BelTA) – A delegation of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Oman led by Chairman of the Chamber Saeed Al Kiyumi is in Belarus on a visit, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI). It is expected that the Oman delegation will meet with Belarus Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov, Trade Minister Vladimir Koltovich, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Valentin Rybakov, and representatives of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce...

MINSK, 20 May (BelTA) – Belarus and the Czech Republic outlined new promising areas of cooperation at the meeting of the mixed commission on economic, industrial and sci-tech cooperation and the business forum that took place in Minsk, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The meeting was chaired by Belarus’ Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Yevgeny Shestakov and Czech Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Jiri Koliba. The parties...

STOCKHOLM, 12 May (BelTA) – Europe will name the second ten finalists of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest on 12 May, BelTA has learned. Latvia’s Justs with the song Heartbeat will open the second semifinal. Other singers will perform at the Globe Arena in the following order: 2. Michal Szpak (Poland), Colour of Your Life; 3. Rykka (Switzerland), The Last of Our Kind; 4. Hovi Star (Israel), Made of Stars; 5. IVAN (Belarus), Help You Fly; 6. Sanja Vucic (Serbia), Goodbye; 7....

MINSK, 3 May (BelTA) – Belarus’ Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei will pay a working visit to Prague (Czechia) on 3-4 May, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Vladimir Makei will take part in the Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Visegrad Group (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Czechia) and the Eastern Partnership (EaP) member states. The meeting will focus on the development of the EaP, the press release of the press service reads....

MINSK, 22 April (BelTA) – Belarus’ position on improving the activity of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) initiative has been presented in Brussels, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Belarusian delegation led by Denis Sidorenko, the Director of the European Cooperation Department at the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, took part in the annual meeting of the senior officials of the Eastern Partnership initiative. “At the meeting...

MINSK, 12 April (BelTA) – Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Houlin Zhao plans to attend the events of the international expo of telecommunications, information and banking technologies TIBO 2016 which is due in Minsk on 19-22 April, BelTA learnt from the website of the Belarusian Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies. Attending the forum will also be Director General of the Executive Committee of the Regional Commonwealth in the field of...

MINSK, 7 April (BelTA) – Belarus and Egypt are expected to set up parliamentary friendship groups. The matter was discussed at a meeting of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Egypt Sergei Rachkov and Speaker of the House of Representatives of Egypt Ali Abdel Al, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The parties considered ways to intensify inter-parliamentary cooperation. “Agreements were reached to set up friendship...