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The CIS will open its election observation to monitor the presidential election in Belarus on 18 December, CIS Secretary General Sergei Lebedev told reporters, BelTA learned.

Belarus hopes to use SOHAR port and freezone for joint projects with Oman, Belarusian Industry Minister Aleksandr Yefimov told the media, BelTA learned. 

The Belarusian women’s football team is 50th in the recently published rankings of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), BelTA has learned.

Historical memory is among the strategic national interests of Belarus, State Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council Aleksandr Volfovich said at the 2nd international conference dedicated to the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, BelTA learned.

The CIS countries have reported the GDP growth above the global average, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said at the meeting of the CIS Heads of Government Council in Moscow, BelTA learned.

The CSTO is the pillar of Eurasian security, the organization is taking on new tasks and  working through all possible development scenarios, Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Igor Sergeyenko told journalists reviewing the results of the joint meeting of the CSTO PA Council and the 17th plenary session of the CSTO PA that was held in Moscow on 9 December, BelTA has learned.