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Despite difficulties Belarus' energy industry is finishing the year with decent results. Belarusian Energy Minister Viktor Karankevich mentioned it during a solemn event timed to Energy Industry Worker's Day, BelTA has learned. According to Viktor Karankevich, the year 2022 has not been simple. “A lot of factors affected the operation of the energy industry but the year is ending with decent results. The realization of the most important projects was secured. The construction and...

Positive feedback from Belarus' visa-free travel program is behind the latest decision to extend the program. Head of the Central Consular Office of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Andrei Kozhan mentioned it while talking about the ministry's initiative to extend visa-free travel arrangements for residents of Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland onto 2023, BelTA has learned. Andrei Kozhan reminded that Belarus waived visas for citizens of Lithuania, citizens and non-citizens of...

Belarus will send humanitarian aid to Pakistan to help it alleviate the consequences of devastating floods, BelTA learned from the Emergencies Ministry. On behalf of the head of state and in pursuance of the Council of Ministers' decision, the Emergencies Ministry joined efforts with other departments to provide humanitarian assistance to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan affected by devastating floods. The government of Pakistan will be given gasoline pumping units, a diesel...

The base amount in Belarus will be increased on 1 January 2023, BelTA learned from the press service of the Council of Ministers. The base amount in the country will make up Br228 from 1 January 2023. Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko signed the corresponding resolution.

The next meeting of the CIS Council of Permanent Plenipotentiary Representatives will be held at the CIS headquarters in Minsk on 20 December, BelTA learned from the press service of the CIS Executive Committee. There are seven items on the draft agenda. The main one is the chairmanship of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Commonwealth of Independent States in 2022. Askar Beisenbayev, Permanent Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Council chairman, will...

The Belarusian industrial group intends to continue buying a considerable part of the equipment it needs in Belarus, BelTA learned from Belorusneft Director General Aleksandr Lyakhov. Asked about Belorusneft's ongoing import substitution efforts, Aleksandr Lyakhov said that many kinds of the products the company needs are supplied by Belarusian manufacturers. “We've been working out these approaches for the last ten years. And they have already produced results. We intend to...