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At the 2nd CIS Games athletes will be provided with everything they need according to the best world standards, Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Petrishenko told the media as he visited sports facilities in Molodechno on 4 May, BelTA has learned.

Together for a Strong and Prosperous Belarus! Forum has brought together 350 students from Belarus and Russia, BelTA learned from Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno.

Belarus has hosted 528,097 arrivals since the launch of the visa-waiver program for the neighboring EU countries, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus.

We are planning to put the second unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant (BelNPP) into commercial operation by the end of the year, Olga Lugovskaya, the head of the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department at the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry (Gosatomnadzor), said in an interview with the STV channel on 30 April, BelTA has learned.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Colombia Nikolai Ovsyanko has held a meeting with Minister of Culture Jorge Zorro, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Department of International Military Cooperation at the Defense Ministry hosted U.S. Defense Attaché in Belarus Jason Tucker, BelTA learned from the Defense Ministry.

A plant designed to destroy pesticides is supposed to open in Belarus by the end of the year, BelTA learned from Belarusian First Deputy Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Minister Aleksandr Korbut.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) should offer all countries methods to minimize harm from unilateral coercive measures, Belarus' representative to the FAO Kirill Petrovsky said during a session of the FAO Council on global food security, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Belarus and Russia's St. Petersburg will run a contest for joint sci-tech projects, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian State Committee on Science and Technology.

On 20 April the Belarusian youth is expected to take part in the Dialogue Between the Sky and the Earth - the dialogue between the SCO youth and the crew members of the Shenzhou-15 spaceship, BelTA learned from official representative of the BRSM Central Committee, international protocol head Olesya Sazankova.