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<title><![CDATA[ Belarus-Venezuela trade and economic cooperation discussed in Caracas]]></title>
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CARACAS, 11 March (BelTA) – A session of the Belarusian-Venezuelan commission on trade and economic cooperation has begun in Caracas. The Belarusian delegation is led by First Vice Premier Vladimir Semashko, BelTA has learned.

Six panels of the commission will work on 11-12 March to discuss oil and gas extraction, cooperation in industry, civil engineering, agriculture and food, energy industry and gas service installation, science and technology.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Latvian company ready to invest in new logistics center in Orsha]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – The Latvian company Logistic Partneri LTD is ready to invest in building an international multimodal logistics center Orsha near the Orsha aircraft repairs plant, Belarus’ First Deputy Transport and Communication Minister Nikolai Verkhovets told a press conference on 11 March.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:45:24 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Belarus to auction off shares of five joint-stock companies]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – A Belarus President ordinance has been passed to alienate shares of five joint-stock companies via tender, representatives of the State Property Committee told BelTA.

The ordinance was adopted on 1 March 2010. The list includes the open joint-stock companies Bobruisk Machine Building Plant, VolMET (Volkovysk), Lida Casting and Mechanical Plant, Barhim (Baranovichi), and Rechitsa Textile.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:35:01 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Union State MPs to address CIS states in run up to Victory Day]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – The Union State Parliamentary Assembly will prepare an address to the parliaments of the CIS member states in connection with the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Nina Mazai, Chairwoman of the Council of the Republic’s permanent commission for international affairs and national security, said at a session of a commission in Minsk on 11 March.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:23:47 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Belarus to choose investor to set up gambling monitoring center via tender]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – Belarus will hold a tender to choose an investor who will finance the establishment of a gambling monitoring center, BelTA learnt from Director General of the Sport Pari company Maxim Averuk. 

In his words, all kinds of companies are invited to participate in the tender.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:13:32 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Alexander Lukashenko: Customs Union should fully meet Belarus’ interests]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – The operation of the Customs Union should fully meet interests of Belarus. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko made the statement on 11 March as he got familiar with a report on the application of the unified customs tariffs in the first few months of the year and results of the session of the Customs Union Commission that took place on 26 February.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:03:41 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Belarus’ universities present 42 innovations at St. Petersburg congress]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – Belarusian universities are showcasing 42 projects at the 16th international exposition-congress, High Technology. Innovations. Investments, in St. Petersburg on 10-12 March. A Belarusian delegation comprising representatives of the Education Ministry and universities are scheduled to take part in all events to be organized within the framework of the congress, BelTA learnt from Vasily Safonov, chief of the science and innovative activity department of the Education Ministry of Belarus.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:00:55 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Viktor Burya meets with President of Lithuania during Independence Day celebrations in Vilnius]]></title>
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VILNIUS, 11 March (BelTA) – Vice-Premier Viktor Burya, the head of the Belarusian official delegation at the official celebrations to mark the 20th Anniversary of Reestablished Lithuanian Independence, met with the President and the Prime Minister of that country. The prospects of bilateral relations were discussed during these meetings, Viktor Burya told BelTA.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:39:28 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Belarus’ Ilya Chergeiko wins gold at European Championships 10m]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – Belarus’ Ilya Chergeiko scored 695.3 points to win gold in the Final 10m Air Rifle Men Junior at the European Championships 10m in Meraker, Norway, BelTA has learnt. He left behind Sergei Kasper of Ukraine with 694.8 points and Russian Alexander Deryagin with 694.4 points.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:28:32 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Belarus to fight for abolishing oil duties in Customs Union]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – Belarus will fight for abolishing the oil export duties that Russia has introduced within the Customs Union framework, Belarus Vice Premier Andrei Kobyakov told media on 11 March.

“I would like to make it clear one more time: we have no intention of giving up on the initial principles, which were spelled out at the Customs Union outset and which meet the classical notion of the Customs Union.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:13:49 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Belarus, Ukraine intend to develop cooperation in military technical area
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – Chairman of the Belarus State Military-Industrial Committee Sergei Gurulev visited Kiev on 10-11 March, BelTA learnt from the Belarus  State Military-Industrial Committee. 

The head of the Belarusian delegation had a meeting with Alexander Kuzmuk, head of Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada’s committee for defence and security.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:55:02 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Belarus President in favor of classical Customs Union]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – The formation of the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia should follow classical principles, the press service of the Belarus President quoted Alexander Lukashenko as saying on 11 March. Alexander Lukashenko got familiar with a report on the application of the unified customs tariffs in the first few months of the year and results of the session of the Customs Union Commission that took place on 26 February.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:44:11 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Gomel hosts BelTA photo exhibition timed to 65th anniversary of Great Victory]]></title>
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GOMEL, 11 March (BelTA) – BelTA’s photo exhibition “The Winners” opened in the Gavriil Vashchenko Gallery of Gomel on 11 March, BelTA has learnt.  

The exposition features more than 70 large-format pictures timed to the 65th anniversary of Great Victory. In the photo you can see participants of the Great Patriotic War.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:39:47 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ OSCE Secretary General to visit Belarus next week]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut is set to pay a visit to Minsk next week. He is expected to give a lecture, OSCE in the contest of present day challenges to the regional security, in Belarusian State University on 15 March, BelTA learnt from the BSU press service.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:28:11 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Belarus, Kazakhstan plan to increase quotas for students’ exchange]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – Rectors of Kazakh universities propose to increase quotas for students’ exchange between Belarus and Kazakhstan. Such proposal was made at a meeting of a Kazakh delegation and First Deputy Education Minister of Belarus Alexander Zhuk in Minsk on 11 March, BelTA has learnt.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:16:10 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ NASB to set up information center for nuclear power development]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – The Information Analysis Center for Nuclear Power Development will be set up in the United Energy and Nuclear Research Institute Sosny of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB), First Deputy Chairman of the NASB Presidium Piotr Vityaz told a research conference in Minsk on 11 March, BelTA has learnt.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:43:22 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ All four bodies of Murmansk avalanche victims found]]></title>
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MOSCOW, 11 March (BelTA) – Rescuers have found the bodies of all four Belarusian skiers killed by an avalanche in the Murmansk oblast, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Murmansk oblast department of the Emergencies Ministry of Russia.

“The bodies of all four tourists have been found. Rescuers are now recovering them from snow,” the Emergencies Ministry said.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:19:37 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Belarus-Russia contractual arrangement on NPP construction almost ready]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – Belarus-Russia contractual arrangement on the construction of the nuclear power plant in Belarus is almost ready, First Vice-President of Russia’s Atomstroyexport Alexander Glukhov told reporters in Minsk on 11 March. 

“The contractual arrangement has almost been drawn up,” Alexander Glukhov said.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:51:18 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Belarus not in talks with Russia regarding energy to be generated by future NPP, Mikhadyuk says]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – Belarus is not negotiating with Russia the issues of possible division or joint sale of energy which is to be generated by its future nuclear power plant with Russia, Deputy Energy Minister of Belarus Mikhail Mikhadyuk told media on 11 March.

Belarus aims to construct the nuclear power station in order to diversify its fuel and energy balance.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:27:58 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Belarus’ NPP project on schedule]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – The construction of the nuclear power plant in Belarus is not being delayed, First Vice President of the Russian company Atomstroyexport Alexander Glukhov told media in Minsk on 11 March.

“None of the sides is slowing down the construction. It is feasible to commission two power units in 2018,” said Alexander Glukhov.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:46:40 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ NASB to provide scientific support for nuclear power program]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – Belarusian scientists are busy developing a state program to provide scientific support for the national nuclear power program in Belarus for 2011-2015, Piotr Vityaz, First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB), told a conference in Minsk, BelTA has learnt.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:19:25 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Belarus negotiating NPP loan with Russia]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – Belarus is holding negotiations with Russia on a loan for building the nuclear power plant and the associated infrastructure, Deputy Energy Minister of Belarus Mikhail Mikhadyuk said at a scientific workshop conference on 11 March.

“It will be impossible to operate the nuclear power plant with the necessary infrastructure in place,” the deputy minister said.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:50:37 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Belarus’ Foreign Ministry slams EP resolution on Belarus]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – According to the press service of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, the resolution on Belarus adopted by the European Parliament on 10 March is one-sided, biased and improvident. 

“If the European Parliament wanted to make a constructive contribution to the settlement of issues between the neighbors, the means they chose are ineffective and ill-timed,” the press service stated.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:24:52 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Latvia to discuss Belarus’ NPP EIA report]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) - Public debates on the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the future Belarusian nuclear power plant (NPP) will be held in Latvia in the near future, Deputy Energy Minister of Belarus Mikhail Mikhadyuk told a plenary session at a workshop conference, Prospects of Nuclear Energy Development in Belarus.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:04:36 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Nuclear power to substitute 5m tonnes of imported fuel for Belarus]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – The development of nuclear power engineering will allow Belarus to substitute around 5 million tonnes of imported fuel by 2020, Deputy Energy Minister Mikhail Mikhadyuk told a science and practice conference in Minsk on 11 March.

Nuclear power will reduce the prime cost of electricity generation in Belarus.]]></description>
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<category><![CDATA[In the Spotlight]]></category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:28:19 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Retail bank deposits Br1.17 trillion up in January-February]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) - In January-February 2010 Belarusian ruble and foreign currency retail deposits in the Belarusian banks increased by over Br1.17 trillion, or 6.5%, to total Br19.33 trillion on 1 March, BelTA learnt from the Information Office of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:09:48 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Belarus Education Ministry intends to set up international university]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – The Education Ministry of Belarus is considering a proposal to set up an international university, Deputy Education Minister Alexander Zhuk said at a meeting with a delegation of Kazakh educational and research organizations in Minsk on 11 March, BelTA has learnt. 

According to Alexander Zhuk, at present the ministry is considering the creation of branches of leading universities of the world including Cambridge University or the Lomonosov State University of Moscow.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:39:03 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Govortsova advances into BNP Paribas Open second round]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – Belarusian tennis player Olga Govortsova (No50 in the WTA rating) has advanced into the second round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, the USA.

Govortsova outscored Iveta Benesova of Czech Republic (6-0, 4-6, 7-6). Govortsova is set to face Russia’s Elena Dementieva (7) in the second round.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:05:21 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Belarus dance theaters to partake in Golden Mask Festival in Russia]]></title>
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MOSCOW, 10 March (BelTA) – The productions of two Belarusian dance theaters have been included into the out-of-competition programme of the prestigious Russian theatre festival Golden Mask. For the second year in row the Maska Plus contest in Moscow has been presenting the CIS best theater productions under the auspices of the CIS Interstate Humanitarian Cooperation Fund, BelTA learnt from spokesman for the fund Alexander Kalugin.]]></description>
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<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:22:58 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Population income in Belarus up 4.9% in January 2010]]></title>
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MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – According to the data, in January 2010 the real income of the Belarusian population increased by 4.9% over January 2009, BelTA learnt from the National Statistics Committee.

The growth of the real income of the population is projected at 14-15% in 2010]]></description>
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<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:51:13 +0200</pubDate>
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