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Belavia will launch regular flights from Gomel to Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport on 29 October, BelTA reports citing the airline's Telegram channel.

Minsk - Moscow (Vnukovo) - Gomel - Moscow (Vnukovo) - Minsk flights will be available three times a week: on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The aircraft will depart from Gomel at 20:00 and arrive at the Moscow airport at 21:25. The return flight will depart from Moscow at 17:40 to arrive in Gomel at 19:05.

Promo tickets will be available for the first flights: the ticket from Gomel to Vnukovo will cost from €25, a two-way ticket will cost from €61.

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The 34th meeting of the CIS Advisory Committee of Legal Services of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs was held at the CIS headquarters in Minsk on 27 September, BelTA learned from the press service of the CIS Executive Committee.

The web-based meeting brought together heads and experts of the legal services of the ministries of foreign affairs of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and representatives of the legal department of the CIS Executive Committee.

The meeting discussed the practices in monitoring the implementation of international obligations, exchanged the information on improving the legislation of the CIS countries on international treaties and on publicly available electronic databases of international treaties.

The participants of the meeting had a substantive discussion on topical issues of legal cooperation in the CIS and in major international organizations.

The next meeting of the Advisory Committee will be held before the end of this year.

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Talents of the 21st Century, a science and technology contest among students of the Union State, is running in the National Children's Technopark and featuring about 300 young inventors, innovators, researchers aged 14-18 from all regions of Belarus and Minsk and 16 regions of the Russian Federation.

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An experiment was staged as part of the ongoing bilateral comprehensive exercise of Belarus' Armed Forces. The Air Force and Air Defense Command staged the experiment to tweak tactical control of aviation units and provide faster aerial support to ground forces, BelTA has learned.

According to the Defense Ministry, Yak-130 aircraft and Mi-24 helicopters delivered air strikes against ground targets of the simulated enemy in the 210th aviation training area.

Deputy Chief of the Air Force and Air Defense Command, Chief of Aviation, Colonel Leonid Davidovich said: “We tried to make a conclusion about how we can skillfully use aviation and how we can reduce the time needed to call an air strike. We are practicing calling for air support at the tactical level, the operational level, and the operational strategic level. We will also try to reduce the time between the arrival of aviation and the moment the target's coordinates are determined. To be exact, from the moment aviation is given a mission to destroy a target.”

The experiment allows testing various control schemes, Leonid Davidovich said. “Several of them have been deployed today. The first one relies on existing communications solutions. The second one on promising communications and automation solutions.”

Certain positive results were produced. They will be taken into account for combat training purposes.

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Belarus offers great opportunities for Pakistani investors and business, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Pakistan to Belarus Sajjad Haider Khan said at the Gomel Economic Forum, BelTA has learned.

According to the diplomat, the Gomel Economic Forum serves as a wonderful platform where representatives of different countries meet to explore opportunities and strengthen economic ties.

Relations between Pakistan and Belarus have always been marked by friendship and mutual respect. Over the years, we have witnessed the growth of both diplomatic and economic relations between our countries. Pakistan and Belarus have worked together to advance trade, investment and technological cooperation. The Gomel Economic Forum provides a unique opportunity to further strengthen these ties, Ambassador Sajjad Haider Khan is convinced.

According to the diplomat, despite the fact that economic relations between the two countries have been developing at a fairly high pace, the potential for their improvement is still huge.

"Thus, Given its dynamic market and strategic location, Pakistan can become a gateway for Belarus and its business to the markets of South Asian countries and not only. Similarly, Belarus, which is known for innovations and technological achievements, opens up huge opportunities for Pakistani investors and business," the ambassador noted.

He recalled that the population of Pakistan is more than 230 million. "Agriculture holds an important place in the country's economy. So an integral part of cooperation between our countries is partnership in the field of agriculture. Belarusian tractors are very popular in Pakistan. Gomselmash is a potential partner for cooperation, too," the diplomat said.

Pakistan is famous for its textile industry, the ambassador emphasized. "About 60% of the country's total exports are textile products," the diplomat said.

Next year, Belarus and Pakistan will celebrate the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations. A number of events will be held to mark this occasion, including in education and culture, the diplomat summed up.

The 17th edition of the Gomel Economic Forum brought together more than 370 participants from Belarus and 12 countries. The forum runs three breakout sessions: Manufacturing and Construction, Tourism and Welfare, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses and two exhibitions: PromStroyAgro and R&D achievements of Gomel Oblast. The forum seeks to facilitate the economic development of Gomel Oblast.

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Young scientists of different countries should team up and should implement joint projects. Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Vladimir Gusakov made the statement during the international scientific conference of young scientists Youth in Science 2023, BelTA has learned.

Belarus pays close attention to the promotion of youth science and interaction of young scientists from different countries. “The Academy of Sciences offers all kinds of opportunities to young people: scientific conferences are organized as well as science festivals, contests, including 100 Young Talents of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. We try to support young scientists, help them, and contribute to their development since future belongs to them. And it is their job to work hard and purposefully and defend dissertations,” Vladimir Gusakov said.

He also pointed out that the Youth in Science 2023 conference is an international one. “It is a basic conference for the Council of Young Scientists of the International Association of Academies of Sciences (IAAS). The IAAS includes scientific organizations from a number of countries: CIS states, China, Vietnam, and Mongolia. Young scientists should endeavor to team up, to implement joint projects. They can count on our complete support. We never reject requests of young people. We try to come up with acceptable, optimal solutions to any requests and petitions. But you have to primarily count on yourself, on your own labor, determination, and the desire to become a scientist,” the chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus stressed.

The purpose of the 20th international scientific conference of young scientists Youth in Science is to stimulate R&D, innovation potential and present projects and R&D products of young scientists in addition to sharing the best practices and opinions about a broad range of matters. The conference has been organized by the Council of Young Scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Taking part in the conference are young scientists, postgraduate students, aspirants, master's students, and university students of Belarus, who work in such fields of science as agrarian sciences, biological sciences, medical sciences, humanities, physics and technology, physics and mathematics, chemistry, and Earth sciences. Young researchers from Russia, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan have also arrived. As many as 13 workshops in different fields of science will work at premises of the Central Scientific Library named after Yakub Kolas of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus on 20-21 September. The educational forum Path to Science will take place as part of the conference on 22 September.

Apart from that, a session of the Council of Young Scientists of the International Association of Academies of Sciences (IAAS) will take place in Minsk on 20 September.

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A coordinating conference took place in the Central House of Officers in Minsk to discuss the organization of applications of a united system for radar-based friend-or-foe identification, representatives of the Belarusian Defense Ministry told BelTA.

Representatives of seven countries took part in the conference: Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Armenia.

Participants of the conference discussed matters concerning a draft instruction on combat applications of the united radar IFF system Parol [Password] and its updated version Strazh [Guardian]. Development trends of military unmanned aerial vehicles and of state radar IFF solutions, which are installed on unmanned aerial vehicles, were discussed.

Participants of the meeting discussed preparations for flight calibration of united radar IFF system devices in the national armed forces.

At the end of the meeting they discussed ways to improve the work of the complex group of representatives of the Secretariat of the CIS Defense Ministers Council and the armed forces of the states parties to the agreement of 26 June 1992.

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Belarus and Hong Kong have completed consultations on the preparation of international legal agreements, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Justice Ministry.

Taking part in the negotiations were representatives of the Belarusian Justice Ministry, the Supreme Court, the Prosecutor General's Office, the Investigative Committee and the Internal Affairs Ministry, and representatives of the Department of Justice on Hong Kong's behalf.

The delegations reached agreement on all articles of the draft document between Belarus and Hong Kong on mutual legal assistance in criminal cases. The experts also discussed the draft agreement on the transfer of convicted persons and the extradition treaty. Substantial progress was made on all the draft documents.

The results of the consultations were enshrined in the protocol of consultations signed by the heads of Belarus' and Hong Kong's delegations. The parties agreed to start the necessary procedures for the early signing of the agreement on mutual legal assistance in criminal cases.

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The agenda of the forthcoming session of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus will include 14 issues, Chairman of the Standing Committee on State Construction, Local Self-Government and Regulations of the House of Representatives Valentin Semenyako told the media on 18 September, BelTA has learned.

“As for the agenda of the session, it is expected to include 14 issues,” Valentin Semenyako said.

Six of them will go through the first reading, four more will be considered at the second reading. “Three relate to international agreements, which the Parliament needs to ratify. Traditionally, we leave one question as a reserve issue in order to consider personnel changes that may occur in the parliamentary corps,” the MP added.

“The first reading will include bills on notary and notarial business, road traffic, procurement of goods (works, services) and also a number of other necessary documents. Four bills will be prepared for consideration in the second reading. They include a bill on a unified state system of recording offenses, a bill on the protection and quarantine of plants, a bill on changing the legislation on health protection and on social protection. All these draft laws are currently in the highest degree of readiness,” Valentin Semenyako emphasized.

The MPs continue to work on the bills in the standing committees. “At the moment there are ten bills under consideration in the House. They will be submitted for consideration of the deputy corps as soon as they are ready, and accordingly, the agenda will be supplemented. All this will help us organize a proper work of our parliament,” the MP said.

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The cooperation that we are establishing in education will help bring our countries closer together, Rector of the Brazilian Federal University of Minas Gerais Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida said during a ceremony to sign the memorandum of understanding in Belarusian State Economic University (BSEU), BelTA has learned.

The delegation included the university's Rector Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida and Director of the university's Office of International Affairs Aziz Saliba and also Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Brazil to Belarus Bernard Jorg Leopold de Garcia Klingl. The guests began their tour of the university by attending a class in the Portuguese language. Then the delegation met with the leadership of the Belarusian university to learn more about the educational capacities of the university and sign a memorandum of understanding. The document was signed by the rectors of the two universities.

"We are happy to sign the memorandum, thanks to which we will develop cooperation in various fields. Now we will be able to make exchanges of students and faculty, to conduct joint research and implement all kinds of projects that are interesting to both parties. We see the growing interest of the Belarusian public in learning the Portuguese language and we hope to contribute to meeting this need and making the Portuguese language more popular in Belarus. In turn, we are very interested in learning more about your culture, language, and the achievements of Belarus. I hope that this cooperation in education will help bring our countries closer together," Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida said.

We have already stepped up cooperation in certain areas, Yulia Shavruk, Dean of the Faculty of International Business Communications at BSEU, told the media. "The first and very important thing is the promotion of the Portuguese language. It is about sending our teachers for internship to Brazil and hosting Portuguese language teachers from the University of Minas Gerais. We are also planning the internship of our students next summer. The Brazilian side is ready to provide grants. As the second avenue of cooperation, our guests singled out the Faculty of International Economic Relations and the World Economy major since we are the leading economic university in the country. Here we are planning joint programs in English. The guests also showed interest in the Faculty of Law. These are three areas of our further cooperation," the dean noted.

The Faculty of International Business Communications at BSEU runs the Center for Latin American Studies where scholars from both universities conduct joint projects. The university also plans to bolster its Portuguese language center.

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