Belarus supports the idea to expand the powers of observer countries in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Belarus' Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said during a videoconference meeting of the SCO Heads of Government Council on 30 November.

The Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Belarus and Turkmenistan held web-based ministerial consultations, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Zheleznyaki Rehabilitation Department of Vitebsk Oblast Clinical Cardiology Center began to accept patients with COVID-19 for follow-up treatment, said Mikhail Vishnevetsky, head of the Main Health Care Office of Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee.

Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Mikhail Myasnikovich talked to Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in a videoconference session on 26 November, the press service of the Eurasian Economic Commission told BelTA.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko made a number of appointments in the law enforcement unit today.

In Vitebsk Oblast in January-October, 352 unused real estate facilities were involved in economic circulation, including 27 republican and 212 communal property, 65 property of the Union of Consumer Societies, 48 property of OJSC, the Vitebskoblimuschestvo Committee reported.

Digital information and communication technology, mechanical engineering, machine tool building, healthcare, biotechnology, power industry, and agriculture will be priority areas of cooperation between Belarus and Kazakhstan in 2021-2022.

The farmers of Vitebsk Oblast approached the professional holiday with a good result.

Belarus is very much interested in non-conflict and effective cooperation with other countries, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he received the credentials from foreign ambassadors on 24 November, BelTA has learned.

The mask regime has been introduced in all regions of Vitebsk Oblast, said Mikhail Vishnevetsky, head of the Main Health Care Office of Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee.

The ministry noted that the fourth conference on the review of the treaty, which took place on 7-9 October this year, confirmed the relevancy of the Open Skies Treaty as a unique measure of trust and an integral part of the Euro-Atlantic security system.

Vitebsk Oblast Clinical Maternity Hospital will be redesigned from tomorrow to provide specialized medical care to pregnant women, women in labor, parturient women, gynecological patients with COVID-19 infection.

The government has been tasked with carrying out a comprehensive review of the system to support large families, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he talked to workers of the agricultural machinery company OAO Gomselmash on 20 November, BelTA has learned.

At the 14th meeting of the plenum of Vitebsk Oblast Committee of Belarusian Republican Youth Union, a new first secretary of the youth organization of Vitebsk was elected. It was Vladimir Babichev.

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has extended greetings to Prince of Monaco Albert II as the people of the Principality of Monaco celebrate the national holiday, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader.

In Vitebsk Oblast, employees of the 5 largest boarding schools switched to rotational work in connection with the new wave of COVID-19, said Vera Astapenko, head of the Department of Social Support for the Population and Stationary Institutions of the Committee for Labor, Employment and Social Protection of Vitebsk Oblastl Executive Committee.

The Council of Ministers issued Resolution No.649 of on 16 November 2020 to approve a list of urban planning projects to be developed in 2021.

Working days in 2021 are postponed from Friday 8 January to Saturday 16 January and from Monday 10 May to Saturday 15 May, the press service of the Council of Ministers said.

When the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic ends, it is important to seize the opportunities of the global production revival and to use the existing situation wisely, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at the government conference held on 17 November to discuss topical foreign policy issues, BelTA informs.

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has sent greetings to Director General of UNESCO Audrey Azoulay on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the organization, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader.