MINSK, 12 August – Belarusian First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Aleinik met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Syrian Arab Republic to the Republic of Belarus Mohammad Aloumrani in Minsk on 12 August, learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the meeting, the parties discussed the main avenues of the Belarusian-Syrian cooperation and also ways of intensifying political, trade and economic interaction.

MINSK, 11 August – Foreign investors poured $4.3 billion into the real sector of the Belarusian economy in H1 2022, the National Statistics Committee told. According to the National Statistics Committee, the main investors in Belarusian companies were commercial entities of the Russian Federation (45.3% of the total incoming investments), Cyprus (20%), Netherlands (6.4%), and Ukraine (5.2%). Foreign direct investments amounted to $3.8 billion or 88.1% of the total foreign...

MINSK, 10 August – Four million tonnes of grain have been threshed in Belarus, learned from the Agriculture and Food Ministry. “By the afternoon of 10 August, Belarusian agricultural workers threshed four million tonnes of grain,” the ministry informed. According to the information released in the morning, Belarus threshed 3,836,600 tonnes of grain, with the average yield at 37.7 centners per hectare. However, by the afternoon this figure went up. The Agriculture and...

MINSK, 9 August – Belarus has threshed more than 3,540,800 tonnes of grain, with the average yield of 37.7 centners per hectare, learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry. As of 9 August, harvesting was completed on 73.9% of the area (255,600 hectares) in Brest Oblast, 26% (94,200 hectares) in Vitebsk Oblast, 51.9% (179,900 hectares) in Gomel Oblast, 36.7% (112,100 hectares) in Grodno Oblast, 41.4% (185,700 hectares) in Minsk Oblast, and 33.9% (112,500 hectares)...

MINSK, 8 August - Belarus and Uzbekistan are considering canceling the permit system in International road freight transport. This matter was discussed during a meeting of the Belarusian-Uzbek mixed commission on international road transport, learned from the press service of the Transport and Communications Ministry of Belarus. "The parties agreed to work on the abolition of the permit system in international road transport of goods," the press service said. Belarus and...

MINSK, 5 August - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Vietnam Vladimir Borovikov held a meeting with Vice President of the Vietnamese company VinFast Trading and Production Tran Le Phuong on 4 August, learned from the Belarusian diplomatic mission in Hanoi. “The parties discussed potential cooperation between the Vietnamese company with OAO Belkommunmash with a focus on interaction in the production of electric buses,” the embassy said. The parties also...