Resident companies of the FEZ Grodnoinvest put into operation nine production and engineering facilities in Q1 2023, BelTA learned from the press service of the FEZ. “As part of the plans to implement investment projects at the industrial sites of the free economic zone in Grodno Oblast, resident companies of the FEZ Grodnoinvest commissioned nine production and engineering facilities estimated at a total of over Br8 million in the first quarter of 2023. For example, Aquapack...

Belarus and Vietnam have discussed plans to invigorate trade between business circles, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BelCCI). The BelCCI hosted a meeting between Head of the International Cooperation and Exhibition Activities Department of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Aleksandr Golovarev and Commercial Counsellor, First Secretary of the Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the Republic of...

  During his official visit to the Republic of Kenya, Belarus' Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Aleinik met with Kenya's President William Samoei Ruto, BelTA learned from a social media account of the Kenyan leader. “Met H.E. Sergei Aleinik, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, in Nairobi, who delivered a message of goodwill from President Aleksandr Lukashenko; urged Belarus to position its interests, technology and investment in Kenya and Africa,” the...

Early spring cereals and leguminous crops have been sown on 13.5% of the target area in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry. As of 1 April early spring crops (excluding maize, buckwheat and millet) were planted on the area of 87,900ha, or 13.5% of the plan. Progress in sowing these crops reached 45.4% in Brest Oblast, 11.2% in Gomel Oblast, 29.2% in Grodno Oblast, 1.75% in Minsk Oblast, and 0.34% in Mogilev Oblast. Land for sowing early spring...

Serbia is grateful to Belarus for continuous, consistent and principled support of its sovereignty, BelTA learned from Charge d'Affaires of Serbia in Minsk Aleksandar Crevar, who was invited to attend Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko's Address to the Belarusian people and the parliament on 31 March. The diplomat pointed out that the Belarusian head of state put a lot of emphasis in his speech on preserving sovereignty and independence, which is important for every state,...