The West is trying to strangle Belarus by portraying it as an aggressor country, State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Aleksandr Volfovich said during a meeting with the personnel of the Brest-based Dzerzhinsky Border Group, BelTA. Aleksandr Volfovich reviewed the military and political situation and threats emerging around Belarus. “Modern wars are fought differently. These are hybrid wars that employ political tools, information warfare and economic sanctions. There...

Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Dmitry Krutoi met with Russia's Smolensk Oblast Governor Vasily Anokhin during his visit to the Russian region on 4 December. Vitebsk Oblast Governor Aleksandr Subbotin and First Deputy Architecture and Construction Minister Oleg Shvets took part in the talks on Dmitry Krutoi's initiative, BelTA learned from the embassy's press service. The parties discussed a wide range of cooperation issues in economy, mechanical engineering, agriculture, road...

Belarusian Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Andrei Khudyk held bilateral talks with Prof. Ibrahim Adam El Dukhiri, the Director General of the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD), BelTA learned from the press service of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection. The parties discussed the ways of deepening cooperation in the field of environmental protection and rational use of natural resources within the framework of the...

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The second round of annual consultations between the ministries of foreign affairs of Belarus and Russia about the protection of human rights in international universal and regional organizations took place in Minsk on 30 November, BelTA has learned. The Belarusian delegation was led by Head of the Central Office for Multilateral Diplomacy of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Irina Velichko. The Russian delegation was headed by Director of the Department for Multilateral...