Belarus and India are set to develop scientific, technological and innovation cooperation. The issue was discussed at a meeting of Chairman of the State Committee on Science and Technology Sergei Shlychkov with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to Belarus Alok Ranjan Jha, BelTA learned from the press service of the State Committee on Science and Technology. “The State Committee on Science and Technology of Belarus shares India's position about the importance of...

People in positions of power should be devoted to their nation and their country. Chairwoman of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Natalya Kochanova made the statement at a session of the seventh-convocation Council of the Republic on 13 May, BelTA has learned. The upper chamber of the parliament passed a bill on civil service on 13 May. Natalya Kochanova said: “We've been working on the bill for a long time – for four years. Approaches have been revised...

Belarus and Russia are planning to build a unified information infrastructure, State Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council Aleksandr Volfovich said in an interview with the Russian magazine Natsionalnaya Oborona [National Defense], BelTA has learned.  Not so long ago, Minsk played host to the Belarusian-Russian interdepartmental consultations on information security. According to Aleksandr Volfovich, special consideration was given to the draft Concept of Information Security of...

The memory of the Great Victory shows the unity and cohesion of the Eurasian Economic Union member states, Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) Mikhail Myasnikovich told reporters on 11 May after the delegation of the Eurasian Economic Commission laid flowers at the Eternal Flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, BelTA has learned. According to Mikhail Myasnikovich, it has already become a good tradition in the EEC to lay wreaths at the graves of...

Belarus has no plans to increase spending on its defense, Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin told the media following the meeting with the Belarusian president to discuss this year's state defense contracts on 10 May, BelTA has learned.  “The defense budget will stay as it was planned. There will be no additional spending,” the minister said.  In his words, the state defense needs for 2022 were approved by the head of state. “The president pays very close attention to it, looking...

The most important duty of the younger generations is to preserve the historical memory, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to Belarus Xie Xiaoyong said on the air of the Belarus 1 TV channel on 9 May, BelTA has learned. "Celebrating Victory Day on 9 May is a very good tradition. Since this day is the memory of the victory of mankind over fascism. It is very important to keep this memory," the ambassador said. "It gives us a lesson that people should cherish peace and...