The Royal Castle in Warsaw on November 5 hosted a summit of Vysegrad Group heads of state, with the presidents of Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia to focus mainly on energy and climate change and the financial crisis in the world.
The meeting between Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Victor Yuschenko will take place before the end of 2008, Ukraine's Ambassador in Minsk Igor Likhavy said in a statement.
The United States is not to change its foreign policy towards Belarus, but Obama could be more flexible in negotiations. Democrat candidate Barack Obama won the presidential elections to become the first ever black president. Who will he become for Belarus-US relations?
Representatives of EU embassies have visited Kurapaty tract today. Let us remind you that People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs shot from dozens to hundreds of thousand people in the Stalin’s time there.
The cooperation of Belarus and NATO will not change; our country does not refuse to expand the cooperation but reminds that there can be no valuable contacts. The press secretary of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Andrei Papou has commented on the recent meeting 26+Belarus this way.
Alyaksandr Lukashenka on Thursday congratulated Barack Obama on his election as president of the United States, the Belarusian leader’s press office said.
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has sufficient information on the situation in Belarus, U.S. Charge d'Affaires ad interim in Belarus Jonathan Moore said.
The European Union is launching cooperation with Belarus in three new areas, Hugues Mingarelli, deputy head of the European Commission's Directorate-General for External Relations, told Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov in Minsk on Wednesday.
JSC BTA Bank, Kazakhstan's largest bank, has upped it participation in the authorized capital of CJSC BTA Bank (Belarus) from 48.94% to 99.29% by acquiring shares previously owned by other shareholders. As a result, BTA Bank has now assumed full control of BTA Bank (Belarus).
The European Commission has issued a call for proposals for new regional investment and trade facilitation project EAST-INVEST for Eastern Partnership countries.
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has sufficient information on the situation in Belarus, U.S. Charge d'Affaires ad interim in Belarus Jonathan Moore said.
