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Bilateral dialogue between Uzbekistan and Belarus in the field of cultural and humanitarian cooperation has intensified, adviser to the Culture and Tourism Minister of Uzbekistan Shavkatjon Ortikov said before a gala concert in the Belarusian State Philharmonic to open the Days of Culture of Uzbekistan in Belarus, BelTA has learned. "January of this year marked the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between our states. Speaking about this anniversary date,...

Before meeting with Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko Head of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov talked to reporters about cooperation with Belarus in road construction, BelTA has learned. Rustam Minnikhanov remarked that road construction is in full swing in Russia. The major motorway M12 took three years to build. It is supposed to be commissioned in 2023. Apart from that, work is in progress on the M7 motorway. There is also the Shali-Bavly big road project,...

 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Andrei Metelitsa met with Mr Sohail Mahmood, Director General of the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad (ISSI), on 12 April, BelTA learned from the Belarusian diplomatic mission in Pakistan. The parties discussed the current agenda of bilateral relations, cooperation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and other international organizations. Consideration was also...

Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Aleinik is on a visit to Hungary, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A meeting of the intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation will be chaired by Sergei Aleinik and Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Peter Szijjarto in Budapest on 12 April. As BelTA reported previously, Peter Szijjarto visited Minsk in February 2023. Then the parties agreed to hold a meeting of the...

Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Vladimir Gusakov spoke about the developments and innovations in the national science in an interview to STV Channel, BelTA has learned. According to Vladimir Gusakov, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko pays great attention to the development of national science. “The head of state said that he would like to see a more prominent role of science and wider implementation of scientific developments. In...

Early spring crops have been sown on 19.3% of the target area in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry. As of 9 April, early spring cereals and leguminous crops (excluding maize, buckwheat and millet) were planted on the area of 125,300ha, or 19.3% of the plan. Progress in sowing these crops reached 61.4% in Brest Oblast, 14.8% in Gomel Oblast, 50.4% in Grodno Oblast, 2.31% in Minsk Oblast, and 0.34% in Mogilev Oblast. Land for sowing early spring...