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The CIS countries have reported the GDP growth above the global average, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said at the meeting of the CIS Heads of Government Council in Moscow, BelTA learned. “We gathered for our meeting at a time of the dynamically changing geopolitical situation, the formation of a multipolar world. Amid this turbulence, the role of regional economic associations, which are gaining more and more weight, independence and which are instrumental to sustainable...

The CSTO is the pillar of Eurasian security, the organization is taking on new tasks and  working through all possible development scenarios, Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Igor Sergeyenko told journalists reviewing the results of the joint meeting of the CSTO PA Council and the 17th plenary session of the CSTO PA that was held in Moscow on 9 December, BelTA has learned. “The main purpose of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly is to create a...

Belarus hosted 3,714 European visitors as part of the visa-waiver program over past week, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee. A total of 1,015,128 European residents have visited Belarus since 15 April 2022. They included 318,520 people from Latvia, 581,566 people from Lithuania, 102,307 people from Poland and 12,735 citizens from the 35 countries which were added to the visa waiver program on 19 July 2024. Detailed information about the visa waiver is available in the...

Chairperson of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Natalya Kochanova has held a meeting of an expert council, BelTA has learned. The experts discussed the bill “On amending the codes on criminal liability” that is designed to introduce changes to the Criminal Code, the Criminal Procedure Code and the Criminal Executive Code, as well as the Code on Administrative Offenses and the Procedural Executive Code of Administrative Offenses. The bill seeks to...

Belarus and Cuba discussed the prospects for bilateral military cooperation on 5 December, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Defense Ministry. As BelTA reported earlier, Belarusian military delegation led by Major General Andrei Lukyanovich, Commander of the Air Force and Air Defense Troops is on a working visit to the Republic of Cuba. During the visit, the delegation had a working meeting with Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba Alvaro Lopez Miera and Chief of the General...

Belarus hosted 3,374 European visitors as part of the visa-waiver program over past week, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee. A total of 1,011,414 European residents have visited Belarus since 15 April 2022. They included 317,292 people from Latvia, 579,997 people from Lithuania and 101,851 people from Poland and 12,274 citizens from the 35 countries which were added to the visa waiver program on 19 July 2024. Detailed information about the visa waiver is available in the...