| 09.03.2010 |
| MINSK, 9 March (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko believes that instead of banning gambling business the Belarusian government should step up control in this area. Alexander Lukashenko made the statement at a government session held on 9 March to discuss a concept for Belarus’ gambling industry development.
“If approached wisely, gambling industry can become an additional source of revenue for the national budget through taxes. |
| 05.03.2010 |
| MINSK, 5 March (BelTA) – The government bodies of Belarus should intensify the work on increasing the export of high-tech products. The relevant statement was made at a session of the Foreign Ministry of Belarus on 4 March, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Foreign Ministry. The session highlighted Belarus’ foreign trade in 2009 and prospects and objectives for 2010 amid the global financial crisis. |
| 03.03.2010 |
| MINSK, 3 March (BelTA) – In 2010 Belarus will be represented at six international travel exhibitions, BelTA learnt from Valery Boldyrev, Head of the Marketing and Publishing Department of the National Tourism Agency.
In 2009 Belarus took part in three international travel exhibitions. This year the Belarusian travel industry has been already represented at the IMTM (Tel-Aviv) and Vivattour (Vilnius) exhibitions. |
| 02.03.2010 |
| MINSK, 2 March (BelTA) – Belarus would like to cooperate with the Baltic Sea countries in fight against contraband, Deputy Head of the Belarus State Customs Committee Vasily Dementei stated as he met with a delegation of the Finnish National Board of Customs led by Head of Intelligence Sami Rakshit in Minsk on 2 March, BelTA has learnt.
The meeting is being held within the framework of implementation of the intergovernmental agreement between Belarus and Finland on the mutual assistance in customs matters. |
| 01.03.2010 |
| MINSK, 1 March (BelTA) – The Governments of Belarus and the Russian Federation signed an agreement on temporary import and export of transport vehicles, BelTA learnt from the State Customs Committee of Belarus.
The agreement came into force on 25 February 2010.
The major goal of the intergovernmental agreement on temporary import and export of transport vehicles is to simplify the movement of all kinds of transport vehicles within the Union State territory despite the country they are registered in. |
| 26.02.2010 |
| MINSK, 26 February (BelTA) – Belarus’ aerial jumper Alexei Grishin brought the first gold to the country at the Winter Olympics 2010 in Vancouver, BelTA informs.
Alexei Grishin scored a combined total of 248.41 points in his two jumps (120.58+127.83). This is his second Olympic medal. He won bronze at the Olympics 2002 in Salt Lake City.
Jeret Peterson of the United States took the silver (247.21 points – 118. |
| 25.02.2010 |
| KYIV, 25 February (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is expected to meet with Ukraine’s newly incumbent president Viktor Yanukovich in Kyiv on 25 February.
In 2008-2009 Belarus-Ukraine political relations have been developing rather rapidly. The two countries had an intensive bilateral dialogue at the top level in this period. In 2009 alone the presidents of Belarus and Ukraine met four times: in Chernihiv in January, in Gomel in May, at the session of the CIS Heads of State Council in Chisinau in October and in Kyiv in November. |
| 24.02.2010 |
| MINSK, 24 February (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has congratulated President of the Republic of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves and people of Estonia upon the national holiday – Independence Day, BelTA learnt from the presidential press service.
Alexander Lukashenko expressed his confidence that Belarus and Estonia have a big potential for the successful expansion of all-round cooperation. |
| 23.02.2010 |
| MINSK, 23 February (BelTA) – A session of the UN Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations started at the UN headquarters in New York on 22 February. A Belarusian delegation led by Deputy State Secretary of the Security Council Stanislav Zas takes part in the session, BelTA learnt from the Belarusian Foreign Ministry.
Speaking at the session, Stanislav Zas pointed out that although Belarus is actively involved in a variety of the UN activities and is a security donor in the Eurasian region, for some objective reasons it only dispatched civil specialists to take part in the UN field missions. |
| 22.02.2010 |
| MINSK, 22 February (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko attended a sport festivity Minsk Ski-Run-2010 in Raubichi on 20 February. The Belarusian President took part in a relay race, BelTA learnt from the presidential press service.
President’s team won the race with the best result – 23 minutes and 11 seconds.
After the race Alexander Lukashenko talked to media and commented upon both the festivity and the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. |
