A session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) took place in Yerevan, Armenia on 23 November. Participants of the session decided to appoint Imangali Tasmagambetov CSTO secretary general starting 1 January 2023, TASS quoted the press service of the Kazakhstan president as saying. The message reads: “Within the framework of planned rotation the heads of state decided to appoint Kazakhstan's representative Imangali Tasmagambetov...

Speculations claiming that a covert mobilization campaign is in progress in Belarus are disinformation, the Defense Ministry told BelTA. According to the Defense Ministry, military registration and enlistment offices check records every year. The ongoing campaign is routine and is supposed to end by the end of the year. Citizens are summoned to military registration and enlistment offices routinely, including by phone, by mobile texts, and draft notices. Persons, who are eligible for...

Over 336,000 foreigners have visited Belarus as part of the visa-waiver travel program, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus. Since the launch of the visa-waiver program for neighboring EU countries, Belarus has hosted 336,722 arrivals: 218,065 Lithuanian citizens, 24,135 non-citizens and 78,672 citizens of Latvia and 15,850 Polish citizens. Over the past week, Belarus hosted 5,115 visa-waiver arrivals: 417 non-citizens and 1,631 citizens of Latvia, 2,720...

Measures to counter sanctions bring positive results, Belarusian Deputy Economy Minister Tatiana Brantsevich said as she spoke at a meeting of the Council on Sustainable Development on 18 November, BelTA learned from the press service of the ministry. According to the deputy minister, the government has taken timely measures to counteract the sanctions and they are already giving positive results. The economy is doing well and has been showing gradual recovery since August. “One of...

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has approved a draft intergovernmental agreement on cooperation with the Russian Federation in the field of management of spent nuclear fuel. The head of state signed relevant decree No.406 on 17 November, BelTA has learned. The draft agreement was approved as the basis for organizing negotiations. The Energy Ministry has been authorized to carry out the negotiations and sign the agreement if the sides come to terms within limits of the...