MINSK, 25 April (BelTA) – The world community cannot address the issue of violent extremism without conscious efforts to change the rules of interstate cooperation, Belarus’ Permanent Representative to the United Nations Andrei Dapkiunas said at the high-level thematic debate of the UN General Assembly on promoting tolerance and countering violent extremism held in New York on 21-22 April, BelTA learnt from the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “The phenomenon of violent...

MINSK, 14 April (BelTA) – Officers of the Embassy of Belarus in Germany took part in commemorative events held on 12-13 April to mark the 70th anniversary of the day when the death camps Buchenwald and Dora Mittelbau were liberated, the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told BelTA. On behalf of the diplomatic mission wreaths were laid in the memorial complex Buchenwald at the plaque placed in honor of the dead prisoners and at the monument erected to commemorate...

MINSK, 7 April (BelTA) – Greece will open its visa application center in Minsk in April 2015, BelTA learnt from the National Tourism Agency of Belarus. Belarusians will get an opportunity to apply for Schengen visas to Greece at the visa center in Minsk. In view of the opening of the visa application center in Minsk the Consulate General of Greece in Moscow invites Belarusian travel agencies to make applications for accreditation for 2015-2016. The accreditation will be held in Moscow...

MINSK, 1 April (BelTA) – Belarus and the European Union will continue cooperation for the sake of reaching high uniformity of customs systems, BelTA learned from the press service of the State Customs Committee after the Committee’s Chairman Yuri Senko met with Maira Mora, head of the European Union’s representative office in Belarus. The meeting was focused on cooperation in customs affairs. During the meeting the sides discussed matters concerning the implementation of current...

MINSK, 24 March (BelTA) – Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Anatoly Kalinin is in favor of promoting Belarusian safety products onto foreign markets. The relevant ideas were discussed at the session of the council in charge of coordinating the government R&D program “Safety, prevention, and alleviation of emergencies” at premises of the Emergencies Ministry, the Belarus government press service told BelTA. According to the source, in his speech Anatoly Kalinin noted that in 2015...

MOSCOW, 13 March (BelTA) – Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Belarus-Russia Union State have suggested developing a textbook on the history of the Great Patriotic War. The idea was discussed at the session of the Social Policy, Culture, Science, and Humanitarian Affairs Commission of the Parliamentary Assembly in Orenburg on 12 March, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarus-Russia Union State PA. Members of the commission recommended the Belarusian Education...

MINSK, 4 March (BelTA) – London’s Continent Finance Holding and Delta Belarus Holding B.V. (Netherlands) signed an agreement of strategic partnership on the Belarusian market to the amount of ?500 million, BelTA learnt from the Belarusian Delta Bank. Delta Bank has been chosen as the main financial agent on the agreement. Under the document, all the projects in Belarus that will get foreign direct investment from Continent Finance Holding will be offered first of all to Delta Bank...

MINSK, 25 February (BelTA) – Members of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus have voted for the government’s action program for 2015. The relevant decision was made during the sixth session of the fifth convocation on 25 February, BelTA has learned. Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov was available to answer questions of the parliamentarians. The document comprises seven chapters to cover all the areas of efforts of the government. Each chapter...

MINSK, 18 February (BelTA) – Belarus could play a bigger role in resolving the conflict in Ukraine, in particular, in Debaltseve, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said as he met with President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Suma Chakrabarti on 18 February, BelTA has learned. “We have a very complicated situation at Debaltseve after the Minsk agreements came into effect. Belarus could play a bigger role in resolving this conflict if the two sides...

MINSK, 11 February (BelTA) – The European Union expects positive results from the Normandy format meeting on Ukraine in Minsk on 11 February, Charge d'Affaires of the EU delegation in Belarus Richard Rudolph told reporters on 11 February, BelTA has learned. “We will hope for fruitful work and positive results of the meeting. The war should be stopped anyways,” Richard Rudolph said. The Charge d'Affaires believes that this will be possible if all the participants of the meeting are...