Belarus’ plenipotentiary ambassador in USA, former country’s Foreign Minister Mikhail Khvostov set en route to Washington today, “Interfax” was told in the Belarusian Foreign Ministry. Khvostov had been appointed Belarus’ ambassador in USA and Mexico on March 21, 2003 by Lukashenko.
BelaPAN was told by the press-secretary of the Conservative-Christian Party BPF Valery Buivol that overnight vandals destroyed 10 crosses at the graves of the victims of repressions and strongly damaged the memorial sign “From the American nation” – vandals moved its upper plate.
Krishna believers claim that the authors of a “Social Science” textbook, which allegedly distorts the activities of this religious group, will escape punishment. The textbook for 11th grade students “A man in the world of culture” on pages 112-118 presents “distorting facts, which are popularized, though they hurt the honor, dignity and religious feelings of the believers”.
On May 22-24, 2003 Belarus will be visited by the delegation of experts of the Foreign Ministry of the Saudi Arabian Kingdom, headed by the director general of the Department for bilateral relations of the Saudi Foreign Ministry, Dr.Sami ben Abdallah al Saleh.
The whole spectrum of arms and ammunition, manufactured by Russia, is exhibited at the “MILEX-2003” exhibition, run in Minsk by the state corporation “Rosoboronexport”. Upon the decision of the Russian government, the company acted as the organizer of a unique Russian exposition. Among the samples of the military equipment, with which the visitors can familiarize themselves, there are destroyer MiG-29CMT, armored personnel carriers BTR-80A, BTR-90, tanks T-90C and T-80Y, various electronic devices.
Grodno University refused to get free printing machine, donated to it by the “Ratusha” public association. “Ratusha” itself can be shut down for that. They had preliminarily reached an agreement on the printing device and prepared special documents of ownership. However, all of a sudden the University lawyer Alexander Vasilenko declared that they wouldn’t accept it. He referred to the decision of the first pro-rector Evgeny Rovba.
At the moment, there are no legal grounds for setting up a unique Belarusian-Russian army of the “union state”, said the Minister of defense, general Leonid Maltsev on May 14 in Borisov at the seminar for the leaders of state media “The role of mass media outlets in the contemporary military formation of the Republic of Belarus”.
More than a hundred Belarusian companies are involved in the joint programs on the modernization of Soviet weapons alongside with Russia, said at the press-conference in the National press-center the head of the Russian delegation at “MILEX-2003” exhibition, deputy chair of the Committee of Russia for military and technical cooperation Vladimir Paleschuk.
Eight activists of the Young Front showed up at the central Oktyabrskaya square of Minsk with white-red-white flags and banners, demonstrating discontent over the 1995 referendum, which changed the state symbols of Belarus, endowing the Russian language with an official status. The YF members unfurled their flags and a banner “No to referendum and occupation!”
Belarusian foundation of social protection of the former military proposed to draw to the ideological work professionals from the retired enlisted personnel in the troops. These people have proper experience in the sphere and need not any special training.
Gomel regional executive committee isn’t ready to provide with free accommodation medics, invited to work in the recently opened National scientific and practical center of radiation medicine and human ecology, reports “Interfax”.
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