A meeting of the CIS Commission of Commissioners for Children's Rights (Ombudsmen) will be held at the CIS headquarters on 1 November, BelTA learned from the press service of the CIS Executive Committee. The meeting will discuss the status of child protection in the CIS states. In particular, the members of the commission will get acquainted with the experience of implementing the Law of the Republic of Belarus "On the Rights of the Child", the protection of children's rights in Armenia,...

Minsk and Beijing will develop a roadmap of military and military-technical cooperation. The agreement was reached during a meeting between Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin and member of Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China Zhang Youxia, BelTA learned from the press service of the Defense Ministry. During the meeting, the parties discussed the issues of joint training...

Plans are in place to add radionuclide measuring stations to the national monitoring system, BelTA learned from Zoya Trafimchik, Deputy Head of the Service - Head of Radiation Monitoring Department of the National Center for Hydrometeorology, Radioactive Contamination Control, and Environmental Monitoring (Belhydromet), during the roundtable session “National radiation monitoring. Modern challenges and prospects”. Zoya Trafimchik said: “Another project of the International Atomic...

The Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research (BISR) and the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) under the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs have agreed to cooperate. The cooperation memorandum was signed within the framework of the international science to practice conference “Strategic analysis and forecasting. Belarus in the global world”, BelTA has learned. The sides are interested in holding subject studies, roundtable sessions involving experts, in the...

Belarus pays considerable attention to the development of effective strategies and measures to counter the spread of drugs, Belarusian Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Kubrakov said during the 25th meeting of the CSTO coordinating council of the heads of the competent authorities combating illicit drug trafficking, BelTA has learned. "The Republic of Belarus pays considerable attention to the development of effective strategies and measures to counter the spread of drugs," Ivan Kubrakov...

Delegations of universities from Russia, Uzbekistan and Zimbabwe have arrived in Minsk for the 12th Forum of Engineering and Technology Universities of the Union State which is getting underway at Belarusian National Technical University (BNTU), BelTA learned from the press service of the university. "Representatives of universities from Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe and Russia have already arrived in Minsk. The forum at BNTU will kick off tomorrow with a reception of participants, a meeting with...