Alexander Yakobson was relieved from the post of the Assistant President of Belarus and Chief Inspector for Minsk. The corresponding decree was signed by President Alexander Lukashenko.
Politics
By Ilona Krasutskaya: Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has finished his official visit to Belarus today. The second day of the visit was rich in meetings and negotiations.
Belarus is ready to share with Vietnam its experience in training law enforcement agencies. This was stated by President Alexander Lukashenko at a meeting with the Minister of Public Security of Vietnam.
Today Giorgi Margvelashvili met with Andrei Kobyakov. The parties have a lot of things to discuss, as long as the Prime Minister is expected to visit Georgia.
The official visit of the President of Georgia, Giorgi Margvelashvili to Belarus continues. Alexander Lukashenko and Giorgi Margvelashvili met again at the Palace of Independence.
Despite the fact that the leaders of Belarus and Georgia held intensive negotiations and long one-on-one talks yesterday, the dialogue has resumed today.
The Contact Group on Ukraine has completed another round of negotiations in Minsk. According to OSCE Special Representative Martin Sajdik, the dilution of forces near the village of Lugansk in Donbass is scheduled for 7 March.
Representative of Kiev and self-proclaimed DNR agreed on withdrawal of heavy weapons in Donbass. However, the specific date is still under discussion.
This was announced by the Chairman of the House of Representatives Vladimir Andreichenko at the first meeting of the organization committee on preparation and holding of the session in Minsk.
By Veronika Buta: The Georgian President is currently paying an official visit to Belarus, today being the first negotiation day.
The Georgian leader is expected to arrive at Minsk National Airport, which will be his first state visit to Belarus. The Georgian delegation will be staying in Belarus for three days.
All Belarus-Russia relationship difficulties are of technical nature and will not lead to negative consequences for Union State construction.
Belarus will continue cooperating with the European Union to fully lift sanctions imposed on the country, as announced by the Belarusian Foreign Ministry when commenting on the EU’s decision to extend visa restrictions against four Belarusian citizens and an arms embargo.
This was announced to the journalists by Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Boleslav Pirshtuk. The Parliament of the sixth convocation is ready for active work of parliamentary groups and cooperation in international organizations.
Today, the Vice-Speaker of the Parliament of Belarus Boleslav Pirshtuk met with the Chairman of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Christine Mouton and Secretary General of the organization Roberto Montella.
Belarus’ parliamentary delegation headed by Deputy Speaker Boleslav Pirshtuk will take part in a winter session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Vladimir Andreichenko and Ambassador of Slovakia to Belarus Jozef Migas have met today to discuss Belarusian-Slovakian cooperation, the development of interparliamentary dialogue and preparations for a summer session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Minsk.
The interaction of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the two countries is developing in a standard manner. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a meeting with his counterpart, Vladimir Makei.
The guests from the largest province Balochistan headed by the Governor visited large seafood, milk, textiles reprocessing factories in Brest Region.
Mr. Sajdik made a statement to the press at the second attempt. The first one was disrupted by radical from unregistered group “Another Russia” led by Eduard Limonov.
Parties to the conflict in Ukraine agreed to withdraw heavy weapons from the zone of conflict in Avdeyevka until February 20, said the special representative of the OSCE Martik Sajdik.
The priority of Belarus during the presidency of the Central European Initiative is to promote interoperability in Europe.
The priority of Belarus during the presidency of the Central European Initiative is to promote interoperability in Europe.
A session of the Committee of National Coordinators of the Central European Initiative will take place today in Minsk












