13 December 2018
MINSK (BelTA) – Belarus views green economy and low-carbon sustainable development as a strategic vector. Belarusian Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Minister Andrei Khudyk made the statement during the 24th conference of the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, BelTA has learned. Andrei Khudyk drew attention to the implementation of the mechanisms of global response to the threat of climate change by the Paris Agreement signatories and the adoption of...
29 November 2018
MINSK (BelTA) – The Budslau Fest has been added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, BelTA learned from the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus. “During the 13th session the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage unanimously supported the decision to inscribe “Celebration in Honor of the Budslau Icon of Our Lady (Budslau Fest) on the UNESCO Representative List of the...
21 November 2018
MINSK (BelTA) – The Belarusian Sports and Tourism Ministry and the TV channel Euronews have prepared videos about Belarus' tourism potential, BelTA has learned. The relevant contract was signed by Belarusian Sports and Tourism Minister Sergei Kovalchuk and Euronews International Sales Director Kjell Stein in Minsk on 20 November. The contract provides for broadcasting five videos about the country's tourism potential. The videos have been created upon orders of the National Tourism Agency...
13 December 2018
MOSCOW(BelTA) – The Mashinostroitel health resort based in Gomel was named among the winners of the second edition of the Divo Eurasia festival - contest of videos, photos and animated films held in Orenburg, Russia, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Embassy in Russia. The Belarusian health resort was named winner in the nomination “Health improvement and recuperation facility”. According to the organizing committee, the final of the contest featured 50 projects....
29 November 2018
GOMEL (BelTA) – The Gomel Oblast Branch of the Belarusian Red Cross Society (BRCS) began distributing another set of vouchers to resettlers from Lugansk Oblast and Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine, BelTA learned from head of the BRCS Gomel Oblast Branch Alla Smolyak. Each voucher is worth Br100 and can be used to buy foodstuffs (except for alcoholic beverages and tobacco products), articles of daily necessity. Eligible for this kind of one-time assistance are elderly people, people with...
21 November 2018
GOMEL(BelTA) – Delegations from 18 countries will take part in the Business Days in Gomel forum on 23 November, Director General of the Gomel Office of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Marina Filonova told the media on 20 November, BelTA has learned. Among the participants of the forum will be representatives of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Italy, Germany, and others. The Netherlands and Israel will take part in the forum for the first time. “The forum will be held for the...
