Cherven Regional Executive Committee

Belarus and Moldova seek closer bilateral cooperation and continuation of joint infrastructure projects.

The trade between Belarus and Pakistan should reach $1 billion, сo-chairman of the Belarus-Pakistan Business Council Brigadier Tariq Khalil told journalists before the session of the Belarus-Pakistan Business Forum, BelTA has learned.

This year Belarus is not going to import grain, Belarus' Minister of Agriculture and Food Leonid Zayats told reporters, BelTA has learned.

Liberalization of working conditions for small and medium-sized enterprises will be continued in Belarus, Deputy Director for Entrepreneurship of the Economy Ministry Piotr Arushanyants said at a roundtable to discuss SMEs development on 29 July, BelTA has learned.

Belarus met five out of eight UN Millennium Development Goals ahead of schedule, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dmitry Mironchik told a press briefing, BelTA has learned.

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Ivica Dacic will visit Minsk on 21 July, BelTA learned spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Dmitry Mironchik.

Interregional cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and the People's Republic of China should focus on concrete projects.

If necessary, Belarus can act as a secretariat in negotiations on Ukraine.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) appointed its observers to the presidential elections in Belarus which will be held on 11 October 2015, BelTA learned from the PACE press service.

The Belarusian social and cultural association in St Petersburg will give a charity concert of symphonic music The Road of Love in Minsk on the occasion of Belarus' Independence Day, Alexander Stankevich, the deputy chairman of the board of the Belarusian social and cultural association in St Petersburg, the chairman of the international ties committee of the St Petersburg organization of veterans, told reporters on 30 June, BelTA has learned.