Polotsk Regional Executive Committee

A Belarusian-Chinese media center has been opened in the Belarusian State University (BSU), the university's press service told BelTA.

The meeting of the Supreme State Council, held on 4 November, was a continuation of the scheduled work on integration in the Union State, analyst of the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research Aleksei Avdonin said in an interview with ONT TV channel, BelTA has learned.

About 30,000 biometric passports and ID cards have been issued in Belarus over the course of two months, BelTA learned from an interview with Head of the Citizenship and Migration Department of the Belarusian Internal Affairs Ministry, Police Colonel Aleksei Begun. The interview is published on the ministry's website.

Speaker Natalya Kochanova is presiding at a meeting of the Council of the Republic's expert panel in Minsk on 2 November, BelTA has learned.

China intends to continue implementing highly effective projects together with Belarus within the framework of the Belt and Road initiative in addition to constantly enhancing cooperation in the area of digital economy. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to Belarus Xie Xiaoyong made the statement during the online opening ceremony of the Seeds for the Future 2021 program on 1 November, BelTA has learned.

Some 2.8 million people have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Belarus, Healthcare Minister Dmitry Pinevich said in an interview with Belarus 1 TV Channel, BelTA has learned.

The bill provides for updating and supplementing the conceptual framework in the area of tourism, defining the basic principles, objectives and priorities of state regulation of tourism. It also envisages introduction of ways to ensure performance by the tour operator of the obligations under tourism services contracts in international outbound tourism.

The CIS headquarters in Minsk hosted a videoconference of the expert group to reconcile the draft agreement on joint efforts to fight corruption in the CIS, BelTA learned from the press service of the CIS Executive Committee.

The Belarusian Red Cross has welcomed a delegation of the Turkish Red Crescent led by President Kerem Kinik on a visit to Belarus. The Turkish Red Crescent and the Belarusian Red Cross have signed a memorandum of understanding, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Red Cross.

Belarusian universities perform well in international rankings, Head of the Main Department for Vocational Training of the Education Ministry of Belarus Sergei Kasperovich told reporters on 25 October, BelTA has learned.