MINSK, 25 August – Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Piotr Parkhomchik met with Deputy Prime Minister, Investment and Foreign Trade Minister of Uzbekistan Jamshid Khodjayev, who is in Belarus on an official visit, has learned. Piotr Parkhomchik and Jamshid Khodjayev discussed matters of cooperation with the Belarusian tractor manufacturer MTZ and the Belarusian heavy truck manufacturer BelAZ. In particular, BelAZ is ready to sell brand new vehicle models for transporting rock mass...

MINSK, 24 August – 268 Ukrainian nationals arrived in Belarus in the past 24 hours, learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus. “From 6.00 on 23 August to 6.00 on 24 August, Belarus admitted 268 citizens of Ukraine. 214 Ukrainian citizens arrived in Belarus via Poland, 47 – via Lithuania and five – Latvia. Two persons crossed the Belarusian-Ukrainian border,” the committee informed.

MINSK, 23 August - The China branch of the BRICS Future Network Research Institute and the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange agreed to develop cooperation in electronic commerce, learned from BUCE spokesman Roman Yaniv. During an online meeting, the Chinese branch of the BRICS Institute expressed readiness to provide consulting support and raise awareness of business in China and other BRICS countries about the advantages of using the Belarusian exchange platform to enter the...

MINSK, 22 August – Over 200,000 foreign nationals have visited Belarus without visas, learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus. “A total of 200,378 foreigners visited Belarus as part of the visa-waiver program. Since 15 April when Belarus reopened border for visa waiver arrivals, Belarus has welcomed 128,519 citizens of Lithuania, 51,445 citizens and 15,736 non-citizens of Latvia. Since 1 July, when Belarus launched a visa waiver program for Poland, it has hosted...

MOSCOW, 19 August – A meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council with the participation of the heads of government of the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union will be held in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan on 25-26 August, official representative of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) Iya Malkina told the media following the meeting of the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission in Moscow on 19 August, has learned. Iya Malkina said that the meeting of the prime...

MINSK, 18 August – The administration of the China-Belarus industrial park Great Stone and the Association of Clusters, Technology Parks, and Special Economic Zones of Russia have signed a cooperation memorandum. The document was signed within the framework of a session of the expert council on the development of industrial infrastructure in the Russian city of Kubinka, the park's press service told. The cooperation memorandum will facilitate the development of high technologies,...