Kopyl regional executive committee

Belarus has suggested to China a number of projects in machine building, chemistry, pharmaceutics, electronics, and communication that can be jointly implemented at the Great Stone Chinese-Belarusian Industrial Park, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Economy Ministry after the roundtable that discussed the Belarus-China investment cooperation

A Belarusian delegation will take part in the events to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp from the Nazis in Poland, spokesman for the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Mironchik told reporters on 22 January, BelTA has learned.

The Belarus-Russia venture capital fund is to be established in 2015, Chairman of the Belarusian State Science and Technology Committee Alexander Shumilin said at a press conference dedicated to the Day of Belarusian Science on 21 January, BelTA has learned.

In 2014 Belarus' GDP totaled Br778.5 trillion, up 1.6% from last year, BelTA learned from the National Statistics Committee of Belarus.

Belarus will work to normalize relations with the West, President Alexander Lukashenko said at the sixth special session of the fifth-convocation House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus on 15 January, BelTA has learned.

Belarusian agricultural enterprises are ready to sell their products under the single quality label Made in EEU, the head of the foreign economic affairs department at the Belarusian Ministry of Agriculture and Food Alexei Bogdanov told BelTA. 

Belarus has completed internal procedures to ratify the agreement between the Government of the Republic of Belarus and the Government of the State of Israel on visa-free trips for holders of national passports, according to the National Legal Internet Portal, BelTA has learned.

Despite all financial difficulties Belarus will keep its budget socially-oriented, Vice Premier Natalia Kochanova told media, BelTA has learned.

In January-November 2014 the surplus of Belarus' foreign trade in goods and services totaled $604.3 million, BelTA learned from the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus.