.Belarus' oil trade house is expected to open in Poland in early 2009, Pavel Latushka, who has recently completed the mission of Belarus ambassador to Poland, told journalists within the framework of a Belarusian-Polish economic forum.
The European Commission's (EC) delegation has arrived in Minsk in order to discuss prospects for the development of relations between the European Union and Belarus, Poland's Ambassador to Belarus Henryk Litwin told journalists in Minsk on Tuesday.
Belarusian police, together with their colleagues from other countries, foiled the activity of a transnational criminal ring smuggling heroin through Belarus to the European Union, First Deputy Belarusian Interior Minister Maj. Gen. Alexander Shchurko said in Minsk on Tuesday.
Alyaksandr Lukashenka held a government conference on November 4 to discuss a draft presidential decree and a draft presidential edict concerning the government’s guarantees of individuals’ bank deposits.
Hugues Mingarelli, the visiting deputy director general of the European Commission's Directorate-General for External Relations, on November 5 met with Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Kabyakow.
The Hrodna Regional Court on November 5 reviewed an appeal against the veridct of the Iuye District court which ruled that the August 2008 issue of the unregistered newspaper Svaboda (Freedom). Justice Alexander Sitsko forwarded the case back to the district court for a fresh hearing.
The European Commission has issued a call for proposals for new regional investment and trade facilitation project EAST-INVEST for Eastern Partnership countries.
