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95% of planned activities have been completed. driver for trade and new joint projects. the vitebsk region is preparing to host the eleventh forum of regions of belarus and russia. open and friendly belarus extends without visas for residents of latvia, lithuania and poland. and a new air route. belarus and china launch minsk-sanya flight. the event program is live. in the studio of veronica buta. hello. belarus and russia have been tested for. strength confirmed the status of the strategic partnership, this was stated in moscow at a meeting of the high-level group of the council of ministers of the union state. let’s ask our columnist olesya vysotskaya what the results were at the end of the year. the implementation of 28 union programs has already been completed by 95%. we have found mutual understanding on a number of very difficult issues. this concerns access to government procurement, transportation of medical products, supply of flat glass, and mutual recognition of bank guarantees.

in addition, we have already achieved good results in industrial and agro-industrial cooperation. the meeting participants also paid great attention to another important topic : transport infrastructure. we are within the framework of implementing ours.

this is what a great job the two countries have done in such a short period of time, and at the same time we will ensure growth economy, digital sovereignty of belarus and russia, as well as healthcare, the social sphere , the expansion of direct air traffic, the use of it developments in industry, all this is also in the spotlight: an agreement has been signed that will accelerate the creation of a common securities market of the union state and will increase the volume of investments using the stock market. the urgent foundation for the partnership has been laid , including at the forums of the regions of the two countries, in the new year it will take place for the eleventh time, how are preparations going? the 24th year of the forum of regions of belarus and russia will be hosted by vitebsk region, there are many people willing and for the first time the forum will be held in three cities at once.

vitebsk, polotsk, novopolotsk will host 1,500 guests, all sites will be ready by june 10. we have a lot of work ahead of us to fill it out, because it is important to choose the topic of this forum. now already. work is in full swing to sign contracts, to prepare agreements that will be signed within the framework of this forum, and local authorities, the vitebsk regional executive committee, and city authorities must do everything to ensure that our cities look decent, in order to the locations of the work of the sections were clearly defined, in order, of course, to show in full the historical objects that exist in the city of polotsk and the city of polotsk, as the basis of our... spirituality, as a symbol, i would even say, of our statehood , where the history of our country began, in each of the cities objects that will be updated have been identified, in vitebsk - this is the vitebsk concert hall, victory and freedom square, hotels, an amphitheater, cultural and sports

complexes, which will appear in the regional center by forum and a new flagpole facility, a lot of work will be done on landscaping, the eleventh forum of regions of belarus and russia will be... the topic of innovative development. the mechanical engineering industry in belarus is showing good results. which enterprises have grown in volume? gomselmash holding has good results. this year , 3.00 units of self-propelled vehicles left the assembly lines. revenue increased by 122% compared to last year. the russian market is the main one. the neighbors' intention is to purchase more than 2,000 machines by the next growing season. he talks about that gomselmash trusts the brand. there are plans to expand the geography of supplies to.

modernization of the workshop, machining of the casting plant and normalization of parts, the main consumers were from a dozen large enterprises in the country, including the minsk wheel tractor plant, litzelmash, amkador, belj, bobruisk agromash, mas. in addition, the gomel plant letiya inormalii plans to master serial production of thirty-cubic -meter reloader bunkers. belarusian scientific breeders, the results of whose work we see on the shelves of our stores, have summed up the results years than ready. to please frost- and heat-resistant, beautiful, large, juicy, this is what scientists call their harvest results, despite the drought, this year is excellent, for example, domestic varieties of cherries have proven themselves. by the way, for breeding work on this crop, scientists and

samokhvalovich were awarded the nan-belarus prize. our specialists are also actively looking for peaches that can be successfully grown on our plots. the seedlings that are being monitored now are surviving. for example, this year we transferred to the variety testing two varieties, these are antaris and regula , this is not the work of one breeder, this is, as a rule, the work of previous generations, so thank you for your assessment, next year we also plan to transfer the variety to test a new variety of cherry, even larger-fruited, there is already with a fruit weight of up to 12 g . our created new peach variety loika was patented this year, which... has been zoned since 2023, belarusian pears and apples have proven themselves, work is underway to replace

imports and it is worth noting that in the state today there are more than 170 varieties of fruit and berry crops of our domestic selection. thank you, the review was prepared by olesya vysotskaya. more news from the economic sphere and not only on the website of our tv channel www.belarus24.by. good neighborly relations. belarus and russia are not only politics and economics, they are also a deep connection between people, common roots and history. in russia, according to various sources, there are about 5 million people who consider themselves belarusians. how do they assess what is happening today around our countries? we address this question to the guest of the program, head of the federal national-cultural autonomy of belarusians of russia, member of the presidium of the council under the president of the russian federation, academician sergei kondebovich. sergey lvovich, recently you came to minsk for...

the core, core of the bearers of high spirituality, high culture, high education and the fact that our enemies today are trying to do something, to break it, they will never succeed in this life, because that neither the russians nor the belarusians were even close to the values ​​that are today are propagated in the west, everything else comes from these spiritual values, this is economics, this is finance, this is their well... what is called askal against our unity, so i think that finally

all these things that further strengthened our unity, which further strengthened our solidarity, we didn’t even think that we were so strong, it turned out that when the time came, well , let’s not deceive ourselves about certain tests, we showed exactly our character, character russians. belarusians, that, firstly, we are even more monolithic together, and secondly, those indicators that, well, excuse me, the objective figures that our enemies cite, wanted to tear us apart, but we have become more powerful, stronger, more powerful, moreover, it seems to me that thank you, in quotes, thank you to these gentlemen who , by their actions, showed us where we had a weakness, and we... closed this weakness very quickly, very effectively, it turned out that we are capable of anything, breakthrough

technologies, for breakthrough scientific research. in russia you notice this import substitution, this is the course that belarus and russia have taken together and common projects, is there an understanding of how we can be useful to each other? you know , with regard to import substitution, here you can break it down into two components: at the everyday level, and that we absolutely do not... not only russia and china, as time now shows, this is really a treasure, a deposit of ours gost super elite products, this is the first, second, this is how the events of recent years have shown, when the special military operation, it turned out that our enterprises are not

only of the military-industrial complex, all of our enterprises are industrial, they... well , they showed a fantastic result, and today the fact is that all the technologies are super tested on the battlefields, here in our rear, they show that we stand in the most advanced positions, that’s what our enemies laughed at, oh, we won’t give you chips or something else, forget, we can do everything, we can do everything, moreover, then, that we taught them at one time. that's all now our developments are being implemented here in the most effective way. is the role of the leaders of our countries noticeable? are they taking the union state into account today? our strategic leaders, the president of the republic of belarus, alexander grigoryevich lukashenko, the president of the russian federation, vladimir vladimirovich putin, they show a true example of fraternal relations

as leaders, an example of how to lead. state and how to move towards rapprochement, and not to the detriment of independence, not to the detriment of some very identical circumstances related to every country, and you know, we are very proud, belarusians, russia, we are generally happy people, belarusians of russia, why? because during the construction of the union state, i think that belarus and russia are the guard in the construction of the union state, the anniversary is coming soon.

more understandable, but at the same time, that over the past, especially a couple of years, these notorious 28 roadmaps that were agreed upon, and you know, at the layman level, on the one hand, that’s what gave, well, maybe , no need to treat like this super mercantile, although i’ll give an example from today, here are my colleagues, members of the council for the affairs of belarusians abroad, from other countries, they have a lot of questions, a lot of questions, like... how to come home, how to replace documents, what visas, like what? moreover, some of my colleagues are in a very difficult situation due to the pressure that is being put on them, in the countries where they now live, and you know, here, you probably have to proceed from

something else, when you come here v belarus, any russian, by the way, right now it’s new year’s eve... my familiar friends are now contacting me, listen, we can’t accommodate, i say, just now, well, recently, please, people were leaving for warm countries, all over europe , it turns out that belarus is not just a country for living, it is a country for recreation, a country for treatment, and moreover, this tourism, which is there, well, medical tourism, now such a position is developing very much, as patriotic tourism. and you know, patriotic tourism, maybe it’s not quite correctly, but i know that now , well, my colleagues, the rectors of many universities, here in moscow, in the russian federation, they are first-year students, so a person entered a university, and immediately the first year is sent to belarus, the brest fortress, khatyn, so that

this is an inoculation against nationalism, this inoculation against this dirt and muck, which... next year is special for belarus, the year of the eightieth anniversary of the country's liberation from the nazi invaders, and then the anniversary of the great victory. recently , attempts have been made to rewrite our common history, what we need to focus the attention of the younger generation today in order to still maintain this reverent attitude towards the feat of the soviet people, towards our common great victory. it seems to me that the time for trying to rewrite history has passed. we have clearly seen the light at a very important stage, we have very clearly cleaned out all this dirt and abomination, as far as russia is concerned.

something, something, maybe we didn’t look at in the first place, somewhere, well, well , it happened, but in this context, here’s an example after all, here’s the policy that is carried out in the republic of belarus, the fact that alexander grigorievich did not allow this at any stage of the formation of modern history, when they always knew that the constitution of the republic of belarus spelled out such an option that the state has an ideology, now in the russian federation there are also ideological ones structures in the armed forces, where without this. sergei lvoevich, literally just a few days remain until the new

year, what can you wish for belarusians and russians? you know, i think that both russians and belarusians do not need any parting words, why? because we always expect from the new year, from a new stage in the life of society, of course, always the very best... good things and additions to our families, and goodness and health to our loved ones, but that’s what we want , what has already happened, these are our fibers of our soul, which are in unison, beating, hearts are in the same rhythm, a single circulatory system, and i think that we are confidently entering the new twenty-fourth year, year.

that we have never defeated our equals was not on the spiritual, moral fields, we have achieved this peak such that let them envy, i think that maybe not very many decades, centuries will pass when they will all say, we also want to join the union state, and such by the way, there are those interested today, we will be very glad, thank you, sergei kondybovich, head of the federal national-cultural autonomy of belarus, answered the program’s questions. in russia. next in the events program, belarus extends visa-free travel for residents of latvia, lithuania and poland, launches a new air route with china's domestic development in the field of medicine. we'll be back at the studio in a few

minutes. this is the events program for belarus 24. we continue. belarus has extended the visa-free regime with latvia, lithuania and poland. we will find out more details from our columnist svetlana chernova. citizens of poland, lithuania and latvia will be able to visit our country without visas in 2024. the initiative to extend the current visa-free regime was taken by the ministry of foreign affairs of belarus. the head of state supported this proposal. introduction of visa-free demonstrates our country’s openness to restoring normal, equal interaction with neighboring states. we see, without a doubt, the steady interest of our neighbors in traveling to belarus. these can be very different. or visit your loved ones, relatives or stay in a sanatorium, or what’s wrong with that, buy many, many categories of goods that are cheaper from us, just first implement this

initiative. for poland, visa-free travel began in july of the same year; in december 2022, the measure was extended for another year. people travel to belarus not only for tourism purposes; many have relatives in the country. in addition, people often come to the republic to buy food, medicine and fuel. chinese schoolchildren and students will be able to get acquainted with the works of belarusian authors. what kind of initiative is this? we are talking about a cultural center that is planned to open in china. in the future , translations of books by belarusian authors will be collected there. about the development

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there was also a presentation of sidin pin's book on public administration in the belarusian translation. so far, the first volume has already been completed and work on the second. another step towards developing strengthening relations between belarus and china. a direct flight will connect minsk with the city of sanya. what is attractive about this direction? the city of sanya is located in hainan province and is famous for its large number of seaside resorts. the start of the flight program is scheduled for mid-january. you will be able to get to your destination twice a week on tuesdays and saturdays. the flights will be operated on airbase aircraft, which can accommodate three hundred passengers. travel time 11 hours the opening of a new destination will contribute not only to the development of tourism, but to the increase in bilateral trade. this opens up new opportunities for tourism and for establishing new business partnerships. hainan is a very interesting place, not

only. it consists of three components made of metal and plastic; the quality of the materials is not inferior to imported analogues, doctors emphasize. the release of a domestic prosthesis will allow us to increase the number of operations by reducing delivery times. the wait for imported goods can be up to three months, domestic endoprostheses are ready to be supplied every 2-3 weeks. this year we also participated in testing this endoprosthesis. yes, we offered our own, as a traumatologist,

we offered our own specific ones. wishes, including for installation tools, have been quite actively implemented, so to speak, into reality; already in december we received the first batch of these endoprostheses. in the near future , the delivery of another batch for our clinic is also expected, so i think we will only increase volumes, as for the use of domestic endoprostheses. since january 1 , 1,800 operations on endoprosthetics of large joints have been performed in minsk; about 75 people are operated on per week. and now about the beautiful tradition of sovereignty. belarus has become aware of the winners of the prize for spiritual revival and the holders of the special presidential prize. we are waiting for details. based on the results of 2023 , five presidential prizes for spiritual revival were awarded. the abbess of the holy protection convent, abbess anfisa, was awarded a high award for her great personal contribution to strengthening spiritual values, cultural and moral education of children and youth, active participation in the revival of cultural and historical values.