MINSK, 12 June (BelTA) - The West is trying to justify its illegal actions on the economic blockade of Belarus, Belarusian Labor and Social Security Minister Irina Kostevich said at the 111th session of the International Labor Conference in Geneva, BelTA has learned.  "Western countries and individual trade unions do not need the truth. Their task is to justify their illegal and unjust actions aimed at the political isolation and economic blockade of Belarus. It is...

MINSK, 10 June (BelTA) – Belarus posted deflation in May, BelTA learned from the National Statistical Committee of Belarus.  In May 2023 the index of consumer prices for goods and services totaled 99.7% as against April 2023 and 102.7% as against December 2022.  In May 2023 the base index of consumer prices, which does not account for changes in prices for individual goods and services susceptible to administrative and seasonal factors, stood at 100.01% over April 2023 and...

Almaty hosted the 23rd regular meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of Financial Intelligence Units on 7 June, BelTA learned from the press service of the CIS Executive Committee. The meeting brought together delegations from Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, the Secretariat of the CIS Council and Executive Committee. The meeting was also attended by representatives of the International Training and Methodology Center for...

We have increased the number of state-funded student places in universities and reduced the number of tuition-paying places, Education Minister Andrei Ivanets said at a meeting hosted by the head of state to discuss the current university admission campaign, BelTA has learned. The minister noted that more than 50,000 people are expected to be admitted to universities in Belarus this year. "Of these, 28,400 are state-funded places. I would like to emphasize that this is an...

The Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will convene for a meeting in Minsk on 8 June and will be presided by State Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council Aleksandr Volfovich, CSTO spokesman Vladimir Zainetdinov told BelTA. "The meeting participants will discuss challenges and threats to the security of the CSTO member states and measures to neutralize them," the spokesman said. The committee is also to...

The Union State has been developing dynamically, despite the external pressure of the collective West, Head of the Belarus President Administration Igor Sergeyenko said in his message of greetings to the plenary session of the Russian-Belarusian forum of historians in Moscow, BelTA has learned. The message was read out by Rector of the Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of Belarus Vyacheslav Danilovich. "Belarus is located at the...