The sanctions have practically not affected agriculture. Taking into account good harvest projections this year, the industry is expected to grow, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at the meeting of the Council of Ministers held on 9 August to discuss the functioning of the country's economy under sanctions and measures to overcome them, BelTA has learned.

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko answered a question regarding a tax on wild berries and mushrooms in Belarus as he talked to the staff of Miory Rolling Mill on 8 August, BelTA has learned.  “What are you talking about? While I am president, there will be no tax on wild mushroom and berry foraging! How do we tax people, how do we count berries and mushrooms? This is complete nonsense. We have never had such things and will never do this,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.  The...

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko is visiting Miory Rolling Mill on 8 August, BelTA has learned. The head of state will hear out a report on the state of affairs at the enterprise and the measures taken to ensure its sustainable operation. The president will also see samples of products and the production lines of the sheet rolling shop. Miory Rolling Mill (Miory Steel brand) is Belarus' only producer of electrolytic tinning tinplate and cold-rolled steel. The mill was...

The international community should acknowledge collective responsibility to strengthen the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons. In this regard, Belarus put forward a number of specific steps that were voiced by Vasily Pavlov, Head of the Division of International Security of the Directorate General for Multilateral Diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, at the Review Conference of the Parties to...

Director General of the Roscosmos State Corporation Yuri Borisov held a meeting with State Secretary of the Belarus-Russia Union State Dmitry Mezentsev, BelTA learned from the Standing Committee of the Union State.  The parties discussed future cooperation between Roscosmos, the National Academy of Sciences and Belarusian industrial enterprises related to space activities.  They also raised a question of developing a Russian-Belarusian spacecraft of Earth remote sensing with the...

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has signed Decree No.266 to approve a draft intergovernmental agreement between Belarus and the Sultanate of Oman on mutual visa exemption as a basis to hold the corresponding talks, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader. In line with the Decree the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been authorized to hold the negotiations on the draft agreement and sign it if the relevant agreements achieved. Written by ...