The police will help train people's militia, Belarus' Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Kubrakov told the STV TV channel, BelTA informs. “We took part in the development of the law on people's militia. Belarus already has a law on volunteers helping law enforcement. There are citizen patrols at enterprises, organizations that are registered with district administrations. As for people's militia, they will be directly supervised by the police. Local authorities will have lists of...

Türkiye has been and remains Belarus' strategic partner, Chairman of the Standing Commission on International Affairs of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Andrei Savinykh told reporters, BelTA has learned. On 3 March Chairman of the House of Representatives Vladimir Andreichenko met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Türkiye to the Republic of Belarus Mustafa Özcan. “First of all, I want to emphasize that...

A Belarusian delegation visited Beijing to participate in China Education Expo on 16-22 February. The exposition “Education in Belarus” presented educational programs of leading Belarusian universities, BelTA learned from the press service of the Education Ministry. “As of today, more than 530 direct cooperation agreements have been signed between educational institutions of Belarus and China. Mutual academic mobility has been growing for many years. About 8,000 Chinese...

Belarus expects to nearly double its food supplies to China in 2023, Belarusian Agriculture and Food Minister Igor Brylo told the media in Beijing on 1 March, BelTA has learned. In 2022, Belarus exported more than $500 million worth of food products to China. “The increase was more than 40%. It is still not the figures the two countries can reach though. China is a huge country. Even though we increased our supplies over the past six years, the potential still remains hugely...

A regular meeting of the Council of Permanent Plenipotentiary Representatives of the CIS Member Nations at the Statutory and other Bodies of the Commonwealth was held at the CIS Executive Committee in Minsk on 28 February. Members of the Council discussed the draft agenda of the next meeting of the CIS Heads of Government Council due in Sochi, BelTA has learned. “The preliminary date for the Sochi meeting of the CIS Heads of Government Council is 7-8 June. The date was suggested...

Belarus and China are reliable partners in the economic sector in what concerns mutual beneficial cooperation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to Belarus Xie Xiaoyong said in an interview with BelTA in the run-up to the state visit of the highest-level Belarusian delegation to Beijing. “Cooperation in the areas of economy, trade and investment between the two countries is constantly developing. The joint work on the Belt and Road...