[000:00:37;00] live news on belarus-1, in the studio olga kalayirova, hello, watch in this issue, international regional security, tasks for the future and common interests minsk is hosting the cst summit, how preparations are going for the meeting of leaders, live coverage from the scene. temporary

palestinian-israeli truce. conflict under threat, a ceasefire and the exchange of prisoners has been postponed to friday. the border blockade continues. polish truck drivers are extending their protest until february 1. the drivers intend to take the fourth one checkpoint. and the russian short course swimming championship continues in st. petersburg with two silver medals in the treasury of belarusian athletes. international and regional security challenges for the future and common interests for the cst state. a summit of the military-political bloc will take place today. it will be chaired by president of belarus alexander lukashenko. minsk met some leaders of the country of the collective security treaty organization the day before. the presidents of kyrgyzstan and tajikistan decided to arrive in advance. with emamali rahmon alexander lukashenko held a meeting that same evening. the guest noted

the success. chairmanship of the belarusian side in the odb. we separately focused on economic issues. minsk and dushanbe are relying on technological joint production. last year, trade turnover approached $80 million. 2023 promises to be even richer. as for our relations, well, i will say that our trade turnover is constantly growing, it is not bad. there will be an increase this year. under 100 million, we will master trade turnover. so you understand, we are ready buy your products, especially agricultural ones, which we unfortunately do not have in any volumes , in connection with this, tajikistan turned to us with a request to create a powerful trading center here, you should know that we will do everything to he was here, we have offered three places in minsk to your initiator, if

you are not satisfied, we will select a site that we are ready to work with you in this regard, all your products that you produce, aluminum, cotton, etc., agricultural products, they will be very good here seriously in demand if you can supply it to us, in a word , our economy, politics, and humanitarian sphere are developing well, and in military-technical terms we are also working well, we are ready to increase... the volume of trade turnover to the extent necessary for tajikistan to be our friend. immediately after the conversation with the president of tajikistan, ali rakhmun, alexander lukashenko held a meeting with the president of kyrgyzstan, sadyr japarov. odb today consists of six states, belarus, russia, kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, tajikistan and armenia. minsk in the military-political bloc always comes up with initiatives that

are aimed at unity. right now our correspondent aleksey volkov is getting in touch with the studio, he is working at this moment in the palace of independence. alexey, good morning, how are preparations for the odb summit going? olga, good morning, here in the palace of independence, it can also be said to be cheerful, because final preparations are underway, literally a few hours remain before the start of the udkb summit or, as it should be said, a session of the collective security council, and already slowly my fellow journalists are arriving, also according to the classics, it is expected that the meetings will be held in narrow and expanded formats, and as you can see, flags are behind me, almost all countries are expected, well , nikol pashinyanyan, the prime minister of armenia said that he will not go, and naturally, against the backdrop of this, many colleagues of a more pro-western persuasion began to say that this was a demarche by yerevan, that the country was going to leave

the csto, and in general was going west ahead. well , i think that it is still premature to give such assessments, but because we know that history, even nato, with which the csto is often compared, that charles de gaulle withdrew france, only in 2009 did it return to the military organization, so these are all speculations, we will not dwell on them, what is also interesting, a few days ago, the president russia's vladimir putin met with the leader of tajikistan in moscow, and he made a small, apparently spoiler , csto summit, saying that the countries of the organization are ready to form a unified air defense system, how this will be, of course, we don’t yet know, but taking into account modern challenges in same region in ours, we see the conflict in ukraine, that drones are the new god of war, which means that the topic is obviously very important, the day before the ministers of foreign affairs, the secretaries of the security council and the ministers of defense also met, many documents were signed, including the prevention of virtual

threats, to in addition, the day before there was also a g20 summit, i think there is also something to discuss there , so we will follow, we will watch, despite the fact that, of course, some elements of the summit will be... closed to the press, we will still collect the most important , the main thing, interesting information for our viewers. olga, i give you the floor. thank you, alexey, minsk is hosting the udkb summit, we are waiting for new information in the next issues. from increasing the availability of social services to issues of international cooperation. the day before , a meeting of the eleventh session of the council of the republic took place, where senators adopted a number of bills, one of them on the budget. social security fund for 2024. legislators also ratified a memorandum on belarus’ accession to the shanghai cooperation organization. it contains obligations our country on obtaining the status of a

member state of the organization. the provision of the memorandum is fully consistent with our state interests, because it will allow us to fully participate in this large-scale work. organization, will significantly strengthen our foreign policy and economic positions, both in the asian region and on the world stage, and this will also contribute to our active cooperation with member states of the organization. innovations await changes in the law on the basics of administrative procedures, they aimed at integrating digitalization processes into public life. it is possible to carry out administrative procedures on an extra principle in a proactive format, maximally excluding the personal presence of a citizen in a particular process. belarus is coordinating with russia nine more import-substituting projects worth 25 billion russian rubles,

deputy prime minister pyotr parkhomchik spoke about this the day before; he presented a report on the work of industry in the oval hall. emphasis on the production of parts and components that are still recently i had to purchase abroad. this will help bring technologically... the sovereignty of the union state to a new level. deputies and senators were also interested in other issues, for example, the activities of pill factories, which were built for export to europe. we are working in the direction, this is the asian direction, and i’m glad there are other points that, well, i don’t really have to disclose, this, but the most important thing is what the deputy prime minister said today, that on the other side, on the side of the western partners, there is a great demand for our products, so we will still find some other options in order to sell highly profitable, environmentally friendly products, by the way, the ministry of forestry is developing its distribution network, the forest house plans

to open new sites in the regions, the belolik promogany dodom project is now coming out to the russian market, the next opening in yekaterinburg is planned for december. industrial cooperation, the main potential of belarus. and nizhny novgorod region. following the visit of our government delegation to this russian region has signed a cooperation program for 3 years. the total trade turnover for 9 months exceeded $520 million. there is time to beat last year’s 700 million rate on cooperation and import substitution. activity is expected from small businesses. the republic of belarus is comfortable interacting with the nizhny novgorod region. due to what we see, well, desire. a real desire to implement and carry out new projects, to master some new solutions, therefore our basic sphere, industrial cooperation, is not expressed only in the steady growth of supply volumes to the conveyor belts of industrial enterprises, this is

a development, such a holistic development of a joint project for the production of electric transport, new technological solutions are found that make it possible to extract the maximum from this innovative type of passenger... transport. we are also building a school in the nizhny novgorod region and preparing new projects in the it sector and the agro-industrial complex. and in 2025, nizhny novgorod plans to host a forum of regions of belarus and russia. the fate of the current truce in the gas sector under threat, a ceasefire should be declared today at 10:00 am local time, and later the hostages on both sides would be released, but the exchange of prisoners was postponed until tomorrow, if not completely disrupted, because of this, uncertainty also arises with the ceasefire. it is unclear whose fault this happened, it is known that there are plenty of opponents of the truce in the israeli leadership, tel