A meeting of the CIS Commission of Commissioners for Children's Rights (Ombudsmen) will be held at the CIS headquarters on 1 November, BelTA learned from the press service of the CIS Executive Committee. The meeting will discuss the status of child protection in the CIS states. In particular, the members of the commission will get acquainted with the experience of implementing the Law of the Republic of Belarus "On the Rights of the Child", the protection of children's rights in Armenia,...

Minsk and Beijing will develop a roadmap of military and military-technical cooperation. The agreement was reached during a meeting between Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin and member of Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China Zhang Youxia, BelTA learned from the press service of the Defense Ministry. During the meeting, the parties discussed the issues of joint...

Belarus is a reliable ally of the Russian Federation and there can be no games in this matter, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov in Minsk on 26 October.

Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Aleinik and Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov met in Minsk, BelTA has learned. Sergey Lavrov arrived in Minsk to participate in a high-level international conference on Eurasian security.

The evaluation of safety of the Belarusian nuclear power plant by experts is part of the efforts to establish a multistep oversight system, BelTA learned from Oleg Lyubochko, Director of the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Center. The Nuclear and Radiation Safety Center has been established in line with the president's decree in order to organize scientific and technical support for operations in the area of promotion of nuclear and radiation safety. The center has been designated to be the...

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Kazakhstan Pavel Utyupin took part in the CIS Ministerial Conference on Food Security, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Embassy in Kazakhstan. The conference drew together representatives of the CIS Executive Committee, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and the partnership and liaison office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...