SHKLOV, 6 July (BelTA) – National interests must be observed unwaveringly when foreign investment projects are implemented in Belarus, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko told residents of the town of Shklov on 6 July. In particular, the conversation touched upon several investment projects, including agricultural ones, which are being implemented in Shklov District. The head of state confirmed that his views had not changed: an investor that operates in Belarus must meet his or her...

VITEBSK, 27 June (BelTA) - Rescue services of Belarus, Latvia and Lithuania are beginning to develop a plan action in the event of a chemical accident with transboundary effects. The first workshop on the exchange of experience of the partners in the EU project “Setting up the joint response system to oil/chemical spills into the West Dvina (Daugava) in winter time” started in Vitebsk on 27 June. The seminar is attended by Belarusian, Latvian and Lithuanian rescuers. In addition to the...

MINSK, 22 June (BelTA) – Belarus has proved a success as a sovereign state, President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said as he met with young social scientists in the Modern Belarusian Statehood Museum on 22 June, BelTA has learnt. “We made most of the chance we got in the early 1990s. Over just two decades – which is a tiny period in historical terms – despite the unbelievable external pressure, we have built in fact a new European country,” the head of state...

MINSK, 21 June (BelTA) – President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has heard out a report of Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich on 21 June. The report dealt with the current economic situation and plans for individual economic sectors, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Belarusian head of state. Alexander Lukashenko asked Mikhail Myasnikovich about the Government’s efforts to increase the country’s GDP by 5.5% in 2012. “In this connection I am very much...

MINSK, 15 June (BelTA) – Belarus will reduce the refinancing rate to 32% per annum on 20 June. Such a decision has been made by the Board of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus, BelTA learnt from the information and public relations department of the National Bank. At the same time interest rates on constantly available liquidity support operations (credit overnight, overnight swap) and bilateral operations (lombard loans, swap deals) will decrease from 55% to 50% per annum. The...

VITEBSK, 8 June (BelTA) – The creation of a political party based on the nationwide public association Belaya Rus is a vital necessity, said Oleg Proleskovsky, Belarusian Information Minister, a member of the republican council of the public association Belaya Rus, in his speech before participants of the second report and election conference of the Vitebsk Oblast organization of the public association Belaya Rus on 8 June. The Minister stressed that the idea to convert the association...