Ministry Of Foreign Affairs (Belarus)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus ( be, Міністэрства замежных спраў Рэспублікі Беларусь, BGN/PCGN: ''Ministerstva zamyezhnykh spraw Respubliki Byelarus’''; russian: Министерство иностранных дел Республики Беларусь, BGN/PCGN: ''Ministerstvo inostrannykh del Respubliki Belarus’'') is the Belarusian government ministry which oversees the foreign relations of Belarus. The current Minister of Foreign Affairs is Sergei Aleinik, since December 2022. Anatoly Glaz, a diplomat and spokesperson of the Ministry, has voiced criticism of international sanctions against the Lukashenko regime and justified bans on foreign journalists from working in Belarus. History Historical lineage In December 1920, the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs was established by resolution of the Second Congress of Soviets of Belarus. With the 1922 formation of the USSR, the functions of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sergei Aleinik
Sergei Fyodorovich Aleinik ( be, Сяргей Фёдаравіч Алейнік; born 28 January 1965) is a Belarusian politician who serves as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus. Early life and education Sergei Aleinik was born and raised in Belarus. He studied German and English at the Minsk State Pedagogic Institute of Foreign Languages and the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna. He taught both subjects for years. In the early 1990s, Aleinik enrolled for a post-graduate study in International Relations at The Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Austria. Career He began his career as an academic teaching German and English. Following Belarusian independence in the 1990s, Aleinik joined the foreign ministry of Belarus. In 1995, he embarked on his first diplomatic posting at a consul in The Hague and later became the chargé d'affaires in the Netherlands. While in the Netherlands, he was promoted to the rank of ambassador and deployed to the United Nations ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Presidium
A presidium or praesidium is a council of executive officers in some political assemblies that collectively administers its business, either alongside an individual president or in place of one. Communist states In Communist states the presidium is the permanent committee of the legislative body, such as the Supreme Soviet in the USSR. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet existed after 1936, when the Supreme Soviet of the USSR supplanted the Congress of Soviets of the USSR, as a replacement for the Central Executive Committee which was headed by "the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee". In its place was the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet alone, no Central Executive Committee, and from 1938 to 1989, the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet was the formal title of the head of state of the USSR until the office of Chairman of the Supreme Soviet was introduced in 1989, later to be replaced by the President of the Soviet Union in March 1990. The Republics of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ural Latypov
Ural Ramdrakovich Latypov (russian: Ура́л Рамдракович Латы́пов, be, Урал Рамдракавіч Латыпаў, translit=Ural Ramdrakavich Latypaw, tt-Cyrl, Урал Рамдрак улы Латыйпов, born 28 February 1951) is a Belarusian jurist, diplomat and politician. Biography Latypov was born into an ethnic Tatar family in the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1973 he graduated from the Kazan University in Tatarstan and subsequently held different positions at the KGB. In 1989 Latypov was transferred to the Higher School of the KGB in Minsk. He kept working at the school after the dissolution of the USSR and after its transformation into the National Security Institute of the Republic of Belarus. In 1994 he was appointed aide to the newly elected president Alexander Lukashenko. Until 1998, he held various positions at the Presidential Administration of Belarus. From 4 December 1998 to 27 November 2000, Latypov was the M ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ivan Antanovich
Ivan Ivanavich Antanovich ( be, Іва́н Іва́навіч Антано́віч, russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Антоно́вич born 3 April 1937) is a Belarusian sociologist, linguist, political scientist, philosopher, diplomat, and politician. He was a professor of sociology in 1973 and a doctorate for Doktor nauk in 1977. He is a founder of the Republican Party of Labour and Justice. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Belarus from 1997 to 1998. He speaks fluent Belarusian, Russian and English.Біографія Івана Антоновича (Russian) Personal life He was born in the village of Damašy in the[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Uladzimir Syanko
Uladzimir Leonavich Syanko ( be, Уладзімір Лявонавіч Сянько, born 5 August 1946) is a former Belarusian diplomat and politician. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1997. From 1994 to 2004, he was an ambassador to France, Spain, and Portugal. He joined the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1973 and Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation The Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation is among the oldest diplomatic institutes in the world, which trains specialists in the field of international relations, international economic relations and int ... in 1987. Personal life Syanko is married and has children. References Further reading * Gramota Pochwalna Rady Ministrów Republiki Białorusi (3 kwietnia 2006 roku) – ''za wysokie osiągnięcia w sferach wytwórczej i społeczno-kulturalnej, znaczny osobisty wkład w wykonanie progn ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Piatro Kravchanka
Piatro Kuzmich Kravchanka ( be, Пятро Кузьміч Краўчанка, born 13 August 1950) is a Belarusian diplomat, political scientist, historian and politician. He was the last foreign minister of the Byelorussian SSR for ten days from 17 to 27 July 1990. He became the first Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1990 to 1994. He served as a deputy leader of Supreme Soviet of Belarus from 15 May 1990 to 27 November 1996. Piotr Kravchenko was born on 13 August 1950 in Smalyavichy in Byelorussian SSR. He graduated at Belarusian State University Belarusian State University (BSU) ( be, links=no, Белару́скі дзяржа́ўны ўніверсітэ́т, ; russian: links=no, Белору́сский госуда́рственный университе́т) is a university in Mins ... from 1972 to 1976. In 1985, he was appointed by general secretary of Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev as First Secretary of the Minsk City Committee of the CPB. H ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anatoly Gurinovich
Anatoly Yemelyanovich Gurinovich ( be, Анато́ль Емелья́навіч Гурыно́віч; 9 September 1924 – 9 April 1999) was a Belarusian statesman and diplomat from Byelorussian SSR. He served as the second foreign minister of Byelorussian SSR from 14 May 1966 to 17 July 1990 for 24 years after replacing Kuzma Kiselyov. He graduated from the Belarus State Economic University and in 1951, he joined the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation The Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation is among the oldest diplomatic institutes in the world, which trains specialists in the field of international relations, international economic relations and int .... He died on 9 April 1999, aged 74. Further reading * «Дипломатический словарь» под ред. А. А. Громыко, А. Г. Ковалева, П. П. Севостьянова, С. Л. Тихвинско ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kuzma Kiselyov
Kuzma Venediktovich Kiselyov (russian: Кузьма́ Венеди́ктович Киселёв, be, Кузьма Венедыктавіч Кісялёў, 1 November 1903 – 4 May 1977) was a Soviet and Byelorussian diplomat, statesman, and politician. From 15 March 1946 to 14 May 1966, he served as the first Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. He also served as the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic from 28 June 1938 to 28 June 1940. He was born in the Mogilev Governorate and died in Minsk Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi .... External links * (RussianKuzma Kiselyov Biography 1903 births 1977 deaths People from Cherikovsky Uyezd Voronezh State University alumni H ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anton Luckievich
Anton Luckievič ( Belarusian: Антон Луцкевіч; 29 January 1884 - 23 March 1942) was a leading figure of the Belarusian independence movement in the early 20th century, an initiator of the proclamation of the independence of Belarus, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Belarusian Democratic Republic persecuted by the Soviet authorities. He was a brother of Ivan Luckievič. Early life Luckievič was born in Siauliai, Kaunas Governorate, Russian Empire into the family of a petty nobleman of Nowina Coat of Arm who at the time worked as a railway official. In 1902 he graduated from the Minsk Gymnasium. This followed by studies at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of St. Petersburg University and the Faculty of Law of the Universität Dorpat. Involvement in revolutionary activities In 1903 Luckievič, together with his brother Ivan and another prominent figure of the Belarusian national movement, Vacłaŭ Ivanoŭski, founded the Be ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jazep Varonka
Jazep Jakaŭlevič Varonka ( be, Язэп Якаўлевіч Варонка, russian: Ио́сиф Я́ковлевич Воро́нко; 4 April 1891 – 4 June 1952) was the first Chairman of the People's Secretariat (i.e. head of government) of the Belarusian Democratic Republic from 21 February to May 1918. Biography Varonka was born in Sokółka County, Grodno Governorate on 4 April 1891. From 1909 to 1914, Varonka studied at the Saint Petersburg State University and published various Belarusian and Russian newspapers. In 1917, he joined the Belarusian Socialist Assembly and co-initiated the First All-Belarusian Congress. From 21 February to May 1918 he was the first Chairman of the People's Secretariat (i.e. Prime Minister) of the Belarusian Democratic Republic. He was succeeded by Jan Sierada. From 19 April, he was also Minister of Foreign Affairs. When Soviet Russia began its westward offensive of 1918–19 and captured Minsk, the government of the Belarusian Demo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Belarusian People's Republic
The Belarusian People's Republic (BNR; be, Беларуская Народная Рэспубліка, Bielaruskaja Narodnaja Respublika, ), or Belarusian Democratic Republic, was a state proclaimed by the Council of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in its Second Constituent Charter on 9 March 1918 during World War I. The Council proclaimed the Belarusian Democratic Republic independent in its Third Constituent Charter on 25 March 1918 during the occupation of contemporary Belarus by the Imperial German Army. The government of the Belarusian Democratic Republic never had power over the whole territory of Belarus. In 1919, it co-existed with an alternative Communist government of Belarus (the Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia, which later became part of the Lithuanian–Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic), moving its seat of government to Vilnius and Grodno, but ceased to exist due to the capture of the whole Belarusian territory by Polish and Socialist Soviet Republ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Decree
A decree is a legal proclamation, usually issued by a head of state (such as the president of a republic or a monarch), according to certain procedures (usually established in a constitution). It has the force of law. The particular term used for this concept may vary from country to country. The ''executive orders'' made by the President of the United States, for example, are decrees (although a decree is not exactly an order). Decree by jurisdiction Belgium In Belgium, a decree is a law of a community or regional parliament, e.g. the Flemish Parliament. France The word ''décret'', literally "decree", is an old legal usage in France and is used to refer to executive orders issued by the French President or Prime Minister. Any such order must not violate the French Constitution or Civil Code, and a party has the right to request an order be annulled in the French Council of State. Orders must be ratified by Parliament before they can be modified into legislative Acts. Special ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |