Polotsk Regional Executive Committee

The draft agenda of the meeting of the CIS Heads of Government Council includes more than 20 draft documents and 14 items, Tajikistan's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Belarus, Permanent Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Tajikistan to the CIS Bakhtovar Safarzoda told a press conference in Minsk on 29 July, BelTA learned.

Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ) will deliver compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered buses to Russia’s Krasnoyarsk Territory, the company’s press service told BelTA.

The final declaration of the SCO Media and Think Tank Summit has been adopted, BelTA has learned.

The Belarusian Telegraph Agency BelTA has joined the Global South Joint Communication Partnership Program. The signing ceremony took place during a meeting between BelTA Director General Irina Akulovich and President of Xinhua News Agency Fu Hua in Zhengzhou, China, BelTA has learned.

The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Russian Academy of Sciences have signed an agreement on cooperation in science, BelTA learned from the press service of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

Tanzania is interested in Belarusian pharmaceutical industry competences and offers support in investing in the pharmaceutical sector, Prime Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania Kassim Majaliwa Majaliwa said at a meeting with Belarusian Healthcare Minister Aleksandr Khodzhayev. The meeting was hosted by the Belmedpreparaty pharmaceutical company, BelTA learned.

Speaker of the Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf may visit Belarus before the end of the year, head of the Belarus-Iran parliamentary cooperation group at the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran Ali Asghar Bagherzadeh said during a meeting with Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Vadim Ipatov said in Minsk on 21 July, BelTA learned.

Additional high-speed Lastochka trains will be launched between Minsk and Moscow, the press service of the Belarusian Embassy in Russia told BelTA following a meeting between Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Aleksandr Rogozhnik and Head of Russian Railways Oleg Belozerov on 17 July.

Diagnostic checks are currently underway at the second power unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant (NPP), the Energy Ministry told BelTA.

Chairman of the Belarusian State Authority for Military Industry Dmitry Pantus held talks with Director of the Russian Federal Service for Technical and Export Control (FSTEK) Vladimir Selin in Moscow on 16 July, BelTA learned from the Belarusian State Authority for Military Industry.