Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko signed decree No.412 on 28 November to approve the main monetary management guidelines for the year 2023, BelTA has learned. Monetary management will be directed towards slowing down inflation to 7-8% per annum and maintaining financial stability. Control over money supply growth will remain in place. The average broad money supply is expected to expand by 12-16% year-on-year, with the ruble money base expected to grow by 10-12%....

Russian mechanical engineering companies are interested in cooperation with BMZ. Aleksandr Borikov, Deputy Director General for Commerce of OAO BMZ, managing company of the holding company BMC, made the statement as he met with the staff of the warehouse division, BelTA has learned. Aleksandr Borikov pointed out that the situation on the world market of metallurgical products remains complicated. At the same time BMZ managed to sign long-term contracts with KamAZ, GAZ Group, and UAZ as...

Belarus and Syria have found new points of growth in bilateral relations, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said as he met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on 24 November, BelTA learned from the press service of the government. “Now it is very important to consolidate all our friends. In this context, we considered our visit to the Syrian Arab Republic at the invitation of the prime minister of the country. Yesterday we had a very fruitful meeting. We discussed...

A session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) took place in Yerevan, Armenia on 23 November. Participants of the session decided to appoint Imangali Tasmagambetov CSTO secretary general starting 1 January 2023, TASS quoted the press service of the Kazakhstan president as saying. The message reads: “Within the framework of planned rotation the heads of state decided to appoint Kazakhstan's representative Imangali Tasmagambetov CSTO...

Speculations claiming that a covert mobilization campaign is in progress in Belarus are disinformation, the Defense Ministry told BelTA. According to the Defense Ministry, military registration and enlistment offices check records every year. The ongoing campaign is routine and is supposed to end by the end of the year. Citizens are summoned to military registration and enlistment offices routinely, including by phone, by mobile texts, and draft notices. Persons, who are eligible for...

Over 336,000 foreigners have visited Belarus as part of the visa-waiver travel program, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus. Since the launch of the visa-waiver program for neighboring EU countries, Belarus has hosted 336,722 arrivals: 218,065 Lithuanian citizens, 24,135 non-citizens and 78,672 citizens of Latvia and 15,850 Polish citizens. Over the past week, Belarus hosted 5,115 visa-waiver arrivals: 417 non-citizens and 1,631 citizens of Latvia, 2,720...