MINSK, 11 December (BelTA) – Belarus suggests the Year of Volunteer in the CIS in 2016, head of the department for youth affairs of the Education Ministry Vitaly Brel told media on 11 December, BelTA has learnt. “The issue of declaring 2016 the Year of Volunteer was initiated by Belarus and was considered at the 8th CIS Forum of Creative and Academic Intellectuals and the meeting of the CIS Council on Youth Affairs that were held in Minsk in 2013. The proposal was supported,"...

MINSK, 3 December (BelTA) – The 20th OSCE Ministerial Council will take place in Kyiv on 5-6 December 2013. Belarus’ Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei will lead Belarus’ delegation at the forum, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry. “The Ministerial Council is a major annual event of the OSCE. The forum will review the situation in the OSCE responsibility area, assess the work of the organization and set the tasks for the short-term perspective,”...

MINSK, 20 November (BelTA) - Belarusian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Vashchenko and Paola Albrito, Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Regional Office for Europe, met in Minsk and discussed the introduction of the best international practices of disaster prevention and management into the Belarusian national system, BelTA has learnt from the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry. The sides discussed the best international practices of disaster prevention and...

MINSK, 5 November (BelTA) – A Belarusian delegation is attending the 37th session of the UNESCO General Conference, which opened in Paris on 5 November. The delegation is led by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to France, the Permanent Representative of Belarus to UNESCO Pavel Latushko, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Embassy in France. Attending the conference is 195 delegations of the member countries. The General Conference opened with the general political...

MINSK, 22 October (BelTA) – The Republic of Korea is hosting the 2nd Global e-Government Forum on 22-23 October. Deputy Information Minister of Belarus Dmitry Shedko is participating in the forum on the invitation of the Korean side, BelTA has learnt. The prestigious forum has gathered delegations from over 40 countries and representatives from international organizations, the academia and the private sector. The forum participants will share the opinions and experience in the creation of...

MINSK, 9 October (BelTA) - The project called as The Big Family which is aimed at providing support to families with children can be launched as early as 2014, BelTA learned from Tamara Krasovskaya, deputy chairperson of the permanent commission on human rights, national relations and mass media of the House of Representatives. Under the project, an account can be opened to which funds will be credited for the birth of a child. This amount may be increased considerably if a family has...