Polotsk Regional Executive Committee

The New Year's charity campaign Our Children will be running in Belarus from 15 December to 15 January, Deputy Head of the Department of Social, Educational and Ideological Work at the Education Ministry Yelena Simakova told reporters, BelTA reports.

Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee – CIS Executive Secretary Sergei Lebedev sent greetings to the 15th edition of the CIS Forum of Creative and Scientific Intellectuals, BelTA learned from the press service of the CIS Executive Committee.

On 8 December 2022 Belarusian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Yuri Ambrazevich held a meeting with Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Population and Development Fund (UNFPA) Yib Petersen, BelTA learned from the press service of the Ministry of foreign Affairs.

Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin met with Minister of Defense of the Kyrgyz Republic Baktybek Bekbolotov in Moscow, BelTA learned from the press service of the Defense Ministry.

The CIS ministerial consultations on cooperation within the UNESCO took place in Kazan, Russia. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the international forum devoted to the 50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, BelTA learned from the press service of the CIS Executive Committee.

A trading house of Belarusian manufacturers will open in Moscow Oblast, Russia on 9 December, BelTA learned from the Telegram channel of the Belarusian light industry concern Bellegprom.

Consul General of Belarus in Shanghai Andrei Andreev took part in the opening of the SCO seminar on rural development and poverty alleviation on 5 December, BelTA learned from the Belarusian foreign mission in Shanghai.

Relations between Tehran and Minsk are at their peak today, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Iran to Belarus Saeed Yari said in an interview to ONT TV channel, BelTA has learned.

Aerial units of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry have returned to Belarus from Türkiye where they had provided assistance with fighting fires, the ministry told BelTA.

The minimum wage in Belarus will increase by 14.7% on 1 January, Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said during a meeting with deputies of the House of Representatives and members of the Council of the Republic in the Oval Hall, BelTA has learned.