During his official visit to the Republic of Kenya, Belarus' Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Aleinik met with Kenya's President William Samoei Ruto, BelTA learned from a social media account of the Kenyan leader. “Met H.E. Sergei Aleinik, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, in Nairobi, who delivered a message of goodwill from President Aleksandr Lukashenko; urged Belarus to position its interests, technology and investment in Kenya and Africa,” the...

Early spring cereals and leguminous crops have been sown on 13.5% of the target area in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry. As of 1 April early spring crops (excluding maize, buckwheat and millet) were planted on the area of 87,900ha, or 13.5% of the plan. Progress in sowing these crops reached 45.4% in Brest Oblast, 11.2% in Gomel Oblast, 29.2% in Grodno Oblast, 1.75% in Minsk Oblast, and 0.34% in Mogilev Oblast. Land for sowing early spring...

Serbia is grateful to Belarus for continuous, consistent and principled support of its sovereignty, BelTA learned from Charge d'Affaires of Serbia in Minsk Aleksandar Crevar, who was invited to attend Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko's Address to the Belarusian people and the parliament on 31 March. The diplomat pointed out that the Belarusian head of state put a lot of emphasis in his speech on preserving sovereignty and independence, which is important for every state,...

The Industry Ministry of Belarus would like to build cooperation with Sri Lanka across a wide range of areas, Belarus' Deputy Industry Minister Aleksandr Yefimov said as he met with Minister of Transport and Highways and Minister of Mass Media of Sri Lanka Bandula Gunawardana, BelTA learned from the press service of the Industry Ministry. The talks were attended by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Sri Lanka to Russia with concurrent accreditation to Belarus Janitha...

A practical course for commanding officers of law enforcement agencies and special services of the CSTO member states on managing units belonging to the special operations forces of the collective rapid response forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) during special operations is taking place in the Management Academy under the Russian Internal Affairs Ministry on 27-30 March, BelTA learned from CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zainetdinov. The practical course was...

Belarus is ready to cooperate with Russia's Sverdlovsk Oblast in shipments of electrobuses. Deputy Director General of OAO BMK Holding Oleg Bytsko made the statement at a session of the working group of the Belarusian Industry Ministry and the government of Russia's Sverdlovsk Oblast, BelTA has learned. Oleg Bytsko said: “We are now executing four major contracts to supply trolleybuses with autonomous mode to St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, to Krasnodar including without autonomous...