St. Petersburg Days will be held in Minsk in April 2023. Such a decision was taken at the meeting of Minsk Mayor Vladimir Kukharev with St. Petersburg Deputy Governor Kirill Polyakov, BelTA informs citing the Telegram channel of the Minsk City Council. “We should build on our long-standing ties. All conditions are in place for this. We see great cooperation prospects in various sectors, including manufacturing, healthcare, education, and culture,” Vladimir Kukharev said. It is...

Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Valery Mitskevich met with Chairman of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Vuong Dinh Hue on 21 November, BelTA learned from the press service of the House of Representatives. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 43rd General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The parties expressed...

All canards and information attacks target first of all the authorities, Chairwoman of the Council of the Republic Natalya Kochanova told reporters, BelTA has learned. “Of course, this is primarily directed against the authorities despite the fact that we have something to be proud of, for example, the performance of our agriculture this year. Our grain harvest approximates one tonne per capita, and even more. We have a broad assortment of products on store shelves today. The...

Belarus has sent a humanitarian cargo to Sudan as it is struggling with the devastating aftermath of floods, BelTA learned from the Emergencies Ministry of Belarus. On behalf of the head of state and in pursuance of the decision of the Council of Ministers the Emergencies Ministry collected and sent humanitarian aid to the Republic of the Sudan. The Emergencies Ministry was assisted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Transport and Communications, the Grodno Oblast...

Russia's Bashkortostan is interested in developing joint varieties of grains and oilseeds with Belarus, Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Bashkortostan - Minister of Agriculture Ilshat Fazrakhmanov said as he visited the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB) in Minsk on 17 November, BelTA has learned. "We plan closer cooperation with the institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. I would like to note that Belarus has good scientific...

A delegation of the Belarusian Embassy in China visited the city of Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, BelTA learned from the Belarusian diplomatic mission in China. During the visit, the Belarusian delegation held a number of meetings and negotiations with representatives of local authorities and business, including top executives of the Economic & Commercial Counselors Alliance in China (ECCAC). The parties discussed the prospects for further cooperation of ECCAC with industrial...