MINSK, 23 March (BelTA) - By 2015 Belarus plans to increase exports of goods and services 2.2 times, Foreign Minister of Belarus Sergei Martynov told reporters, BelTA informs. The draft national export promotion program for 2011-2015 was considered at a session of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers on 23 March. “Our primary goal is to boost exports of goods and services by 2.2 times by 2015,” said Sergei Martynov. According to him, the second most important task is to tackle with...

MOSCOW, 23 March (BelTA) – Staring from 2012 Belarusian business entities will be entitled to execute government orders in Russia and take part in the public procurement contracts on terms of Russian suppliers of goods and services, Russia’s Deputy Economic Development Minister Aleksei Likhachev told reporters on 23 March, BelTA has learned. “The national treatment regime with Belarus will be launched starting from 2012, with Kazakhstan starting from 2014,” Aleksei Likhachev said. He...

MINSK, 22 March (BelTA) – Belarus has prepared a list of persons banned from entering this country, the spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Andrei Savinykh told BelTA when commenting on the introduction of the response measures to the sanctions of the European Union and the United States against Belarus As previously reported, the Republic of Belarus has adopted measures that are a response to the sanctions of the European Union and the United States. The Belarusian side prepared a list of...

MINSK, 21 March (BelTA) – Belarus has prepared and has been implementing measures in response to the European Union’s decision to impose sanctions on Belarusian officials. The reciprocal measures will affect over 150 people from the European Union and the USA, the news agency Interfax West quoted a source in the government. Among other people the measures will affect President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek, member of the European Parliament Jacek Protasiewicz and several other...

MINSK, 21 March (BelTA) - Belarus has announced open international tenders to find investors for development of slate coal deposits in Turov and Lyuban, BelTA learnt from Yelena Penyaz, chief of the information and public relations department – spokesperson for the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. “The project is supported by the state and aims to tap to the maximum into the domestic fuel and energy potential. Slate coal products will be used to produce motor fuel,...

MINSK, 18 March (BelTA) – The promotion of deeper integration in the Union State is stalled by the lack of a common Constitition, said President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko as he met with top executives of several Russian mass media on 18 March. “What we have achieved in the Customs Union is considerably behind what we have in the Union State of Belarus and Russia,” said Alexander Lukashenko. For instance, citizens in the Union State have equal rights while people in the Customs...