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Belarusian Sport and Tourism Minister Sergei Kovalchuk has met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Hungary to Belarus Zsolt Csutora, BelTA learned from the website of the ministry. The parties have exchanged views on enhancing mutually beneficial cooperation, including the resumption of work of the working group on tourism set up as part of the Belarusian-Hungarian intergovernmental commission. Hungary was updated on the 2nd CIS Games which are to take place in...

Scientists of Belarus and Egypt intend to cooperate in the field of water purification and prevention of desertification, BelTA learned from the press service of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB). The NASB delegation led by First Deputy Chairman of the NASB Presidium Sergei Chizhik visited Egypt to explore the prospects for cooperation with a number of research institutions. "An agreement was reached with the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of Egypt...

Since 2015 almost 124,000 large families have opened the deposit accounts in Belarus under the family capital program, Belarusian Labor and Social Security Minister Valery Kovalkov told the media, BelTA has learned. "The family capital program holds a special place in the system of support for large families. Since 2020, family capital has been provided in Belarusian rubles and is index annually. This year, it equals Br29,950. Since 2015, when the program was launched, deposit...

Russia will provide Belarus with $3.5 million for a project to localize the SDGs, Head of the Sustainable Development Department at the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vadim Pisarevich told reporters, BelTA reports. "We have a clear architecture for the process of achieving the SDGs. The task is to ensure its continued effective functioning. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will continue to play its role as a coordinator in this process," Vadim Pisarevich said. “In the next...

The police will help train people's militia, Belarus' Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Kubrakov told the STV TV channel, BelTA informs. “We took part in the development of the law on people's militia. Belarus already has a law on volunteers helping law enforcement. There are citizen patrols at enterprises, organizations that are registered with district administrations. As for people's militia, they will be directly supervised by the police. Local authorities will have lists of...

Türkiye has been and remains Belarus' strategic partner, Chairman of the Standing Commission on International Affairs of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Andrei Savinykh told reporters, BelTA has learned. On 3 March Chairman of the House of Representatives Vladimir Andreichenko met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Türkiye to the Republic of Belarus Mustafa Özcan. “First of all, I want to emphasize that...