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China, firmly following the strategic course of President Xi Jinping, is multiplying centuries-old traditions of state building, Belarusian First Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Snopkov said as he spoke at an event to mark the 74th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on 25 September, BelTA has learned. “On behalf of the Government of the Republic of Belarus and myself personally, I sincerely congratulate you on the national holiday - the Day of Establishment of...

The 67th Regular Session of the IAEA General Conference is running in Vienna. An exposition of the Belarusian nuclear power plant has opened at the headquarters of the organization - the Vienna International Centre. The exposition will feature information about Belarus' nuclear energy program, BelTA learned from the press service of the Energy Ministry. The press service noted that visitors to the Belarusian stand will be able to learn about the nuclear energy and nuclear safety...

Grodno Oblast Governor Vladimir Karanik met with the delegation of the Republic of Karelia headed by Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Karelia Larisa Podsadnik to discuss plans for further cooperation between the regions, BelTA has learned. “If we analyze our regions, we will see that they are similar in many respects. These are border regions with a very large tourist potential. Nobody doubts the tourism potential of Karelia and Grodno Oblast. We have many areas for...

A coordinating conference took place in the Central House of Officers in Minsk to discuss the organization of applications of a united system for radar-based friend-or-foe identification, representatives of the Belarusian Defense Ministry told BelTA. Representatives of seven countries took part in the conference: Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Armenia. Participants of the conference discussed matters concerning a draft instruction on combat...

China is hosting a meeting of the Global Public Security Cooperation Forum. A delegation of the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs is headed by Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Dmitry Korzyuk, BelTA learned from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The forum brought together representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Serbia, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Egypt and Pakistan. On the sidelines of the forum, a meeting was held between China's Vice Minister of Public Security...

Since the start of the year, Belarus has welcomed 328,626 residents of the neighboring EU states, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus. This included 200,678 citizens of Lithuania, 75,297 citizens and 23,196 non-citizens of Latvia, and 29,455 Polish citizens. Some 713,612 people from the neighboring EU countries have visited Belarus since the launch of the visa-waiver program, including 448,941 citizens of Lithuania, 50,075 non-citizens and 163,431 citizens of...