The agenda of the prime ministers of Belarus and Russia includes 25 issues of trade and economic cooperation, implementation of the Union’s priority areas of development, the Military Doctrine project, the forecast balances of agricultural products and indicative balances of fuel and energy resources for the next year.
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Sudanese Embassy has been opened in Minsk today. Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, President of this African country, was also present at the ceremony.
This was announced today at a round table in the House of Representatives. Now foreigners can stay in Belarus without registration in the internal affairs bodies for only 5 days.
These days, Cairo hosts the largest international exhibition of food and beverages Food Africa. These are more than 300 companies from 32 countries.
Today, it was stated by Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Interior and Administration Renata Szczęch after the meeting in Minsk of the Belarusian-Polish intergovernmental commission on cross-border cooperation.
There are dozens of important issues for the Commonwealth countries on the agenda. The CIS Economic Council will discuss investment cooperation, the formation of competition policy in the development of the digital economy.
The chief initiative among them is redefining the spirit and essence of the Helsinki process, its adaptation to new reality.
Following the principle of peace and neutrality, Belarus continues to remain the central platform for resolving the situation in Ukraine.
This was announced today in Belovezhskaya Pushcha at a meeting of a special working group of representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the two countries.
Ukraine has imposed martial law in 10 regions of the country for a period of 30 days. Our neighbor has made a call for NATO countries to send warships to the Sea of Azov to ensure the security of the region.
The importance of the interaction in the Normandy and Minsk formats in the negotiations on Ukraine was stressed by the participants of the meeting of the tripartite contact group in Minsk.
Director General of the German-Belarusian Society Rainer Lindner underlines that our bilateral relations are reaching a new level.
The contact group to resolve the situation in the east of Ukraine is gathering today for a regular meeting in Minsk. This will be the first meeting after the November 11 elections, in which interim head of the unrecognized Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin won over 60 percent of the vote.
Priority attention at the upcoming Council of Ministers will be paid to bilateral trade and economic relations. This was highlighted by Vladimir Makei based on the results of the joint session of the collegiums of the Foreign Ministries of Belarus and Russia.
Early in the morning, the Azerbaijani delegation laid a floral wreath to the Victory monument, a symbolic place of memory.
Kazakhstan will be represented by a native of Belarus, in the past, an athlete, and now a well - known businessman in Astana Sergey Demyashkevich.
The expansion of the inter-parliamentary dialogue between Belarus and Egypt, as well as issues of economic partnership were discussed by deputies of the two countries.
Preparations for the meeting of the Federal Council of Ministers and integration within the framework of the two states, as well as the five EAEU countries, were discussed today in Minsk.
The future negotiations of the presidents of Belarus and Azerbaijan are called upon to become a new impetus for cooperation between the states.
This was agreed in Moscow by representatives from 16 countries. At the conference "Problems of the protection of human rights in the Eurasian space" they will exchange practical experience in solving many issues.
The heads of states held talks in narrow and extended formats. There were 23 issues on the agenda: in particular, it summing up the results of the year under the chairmanship of Kazakhstan, a general declaration and a statement on coordinated measures in relation to members of terrorist groups.
The President of Belarus arrived in Kazakhstan on a working visit. A few minutes ago the plane of the Belarusian leader landed in Astana.
The key issue of the summit is how the Eurasian military-political union will react to new threats and challenges. In particular: US statement about withdrawing from the treaty on medium and short-range missiles, large-scale NATO exercises in Norway, the growth of terrorist and extremist activism in Central Asia, Afghanistan and North Africa.
A session of the CSTO Council will be held in Kazakhstan. As noted by Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei (at a meeting with his Kyrgyz counterpart), Belarus highly appreciates the efforts of Kyrgyzstan to remove the contradictions between the Central Asian republics (it contributes to stability and security in the region).












