All UN agencies should give their principled assessment of the illegality of sanctions and their destructive impact on the world of work, Belarusian Labor and Social Security Minister Irina Kostevich said as she delivered a video address to the general discussion at the 61st session of the UN Commission for Social Development, BelTA learned from the press service of the Labor and Social Security Ministry. According to the minister, countering new challenges requires serious...

The amount of material damage for Belarus from the Nazi atrocities during the Great Patriotic War is estimated at least at $2.3 trillion, Belarus' Prosecutor General Andrei Shved said in an interview to Belarus 1 TV Channel, BelTA has learned. “Last October, a special government commission completed its work to determine the material damage of the BSSR during the Great Patriotic War. The head of state was reported that the minimum amount of material damage is 43,500 tonnes of...

  Chairman of the Board of the National Bank Pavel Kallaur delivered a report to the head of state on the planned changes to the Banking Code, BelTA has learned. "The Banking Code has been updated to improve the legal framework in which the National Bank and banks operate. This step has been due to changes in the macroeconomic environment and national legislation, integration processes in the financial sector and the dynamic development of information technologies in the banking...

The communications sector Gross Value Added (GVA) accounted for 6.6% of Belarus' GDP in 2022, the press service of the Communications and Informatization Ministry told BelTA following the meeting of the board of the department. In 2022, the communications sector GVA was at 6.6% of Belarus' GDP, including: information technologies and information services - 5%, telecommunications - 1.4%, postal service - 0.2%. In accordance with the president's Decree No. 136 "On the public...

The next meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council will take place in Russia's Sochi on 7-9 June, Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Mikhail Myasnikovich told the media following the session of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in Almaty on 3 February, BelTA has learned. “We will be gearing up for a large-scale event - an intergovernmental council, which is due to take place in Sochi on 7-9 June. Plans are also in place to organize a large...

Belarus cooperates with the countries of the Middle East in two main areas: credit and investment, humanitarian, Yuri Nikolaichik, Head of the Africa and Middle East Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, said in a new episode of BelTA's YouTube project "After the Fact: Lukashenko's Decisions". According to him, the cooperation of Belarus with the countries of the Middle East "has been developing well", although this region is very heterogeneous. For example, an...