At the meeting with his Azerbaijani colleagues in Baku, the Deputy Minister of Communications and Informatization of Belarus, Mikalai Strugau, will discuss the prospects of co-operation in the sphere of communications and information technologies between Azerbaijan and Belarus, the Ambassador of Belarus to Azerbaijan, Nikolai Patskevich, told TrendNews on 11 November.
An agreement between the government of Belarus and the government of the Republic of Turkey on cooperation and mutual administrative assistance in customs affairs was signed in Minsk on November 11. The document was signed by Chairman of the State Customs Committee of Belarus Alyaksandr Shpileusky and Emin Zararsiz, Undersecretary of Turkish Customs, reported Belta.
On November 10 the main veterinary department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Belarus imposed temporary restrictions on the import of live and processed poultry and also feedstuffs and feed additives from Skanland, Sweden where an outbreak of Newcastle disease was registered, BelTA learnt from Vital Masarnousky, the chief veterinary doctor - state vet inspector of the main veterinary department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
Belarus' central bank will scrap a recommendation limiting commercial banks' interest rates to no more than three percentage points above its key refinancing rate as of next year, the bank said on Tuesday. "This decision was taken so that banks could react to the changing situation faster ...
The leader of Belarus has praised U.S. president-elect Barack Obama as "young, educated and unblinkered" and said he hoped he would improve strained relations between the two countries. President Alyaksandr Lukashenka was long accused of crushing basic rights but has sought better ties with the West for more than a year after quarrelling with Russia over energy prices.
Alyaksandr Lukashenka has, by his presidential edict, authorized a draft interstate convention on the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of income and property tax evasion, which the government is to sign with Spain.
Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS) holds on 11-12 November 2008 its second annual international conference under the title “Belarus: Shaping the Space for Change.” Leading analysts, politicians and diplomats from Belarus, the EU, Russia and North America, will gather in Kyiv, Ukraine, to discuss the prospects for political, economic, and social transformation in Belarus.
American lawyer Emanuel Zeltser has been transferred to the correctional facility number 11 in Mahilyow on the night between November 11 and 12 to serve his time, the defense counsel, Dzmitry Harachka.
Belarusian annalists think that the West has lost in the confrontation with the Belarusian regime. The announcements were made at a conference “Belarus: creating space for changes” in Kiev.
The European Commission has issued a call for proposals for new regional investment and trade facilitation project EAST-INVEST for Eastern Partnership countries.
On November 10 the main veterinary department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Belarus imposed temporary restrictions on the import of live and processed poultry and also feedstuffs and feed additives from Skanland, Sweden where an outbreak of Newcastle disease was registered, BelTA learnt from Vital Masarnousky, the chief veterinary doctor - state vet inspector of the main veterinary department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
