Alexander Lukashenko

EU foreign ministers have agreed on a provisional commitment to a four-month lifting of sanctions imposed on Belarus.

Alexander Lukashenko won a fifth consecutive term as president of Belarus in the elections held on Sunday.

The 61-year-old incumbent president, who has held the position since 1994, garnered 83.49 % of the votes, TASS news agency informs.

Lukashenko, who has been re-elected on three other occasions in 2001, 2006 and 2010, will serve for another five-year term until 2020.

Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko has denied reports that his country might host a Russian military base.

Setting up an Air Force base in Belarus was never an issue between Lukashenko and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, BELTA agency quotes him as saying.

Montenegro and Belarus will sign a five-year agreement on economic and security cooperation on the sidelines of this year's UN General Assembly session, which starts in New York on Wednesday.

Under the draft protocol, which BIRN has seen, the two countries' foreign ministries have agreed a model for a five-year cooperation, which was initiated by Belarus.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko expects Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic to visit Belarus, the Belarusian news agency Belta has reported.

The agency reported that Lukashenko said this during a meeting with Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic.

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has said he will not attend Victory Day celebrations in Russian capital Moscow on May 9.

Lukashenko has cited the need to receive Minsk's own parade marking the 70th anniversary since the end of World War Two in 1945.

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has appointed his chief of staff Andrei Kobyakov as Prime Minister.

The move was announced on Saturday by the press service of the President.

Kobyakov replaces Mikhail Myasnikovich, who served as Belarus' Prime Minister since December 2010, according to Deustche Welle.

BELGRADE - Business forum of Serbian and Belarus businessmen was organised in the Serbian Chamber of Commerce on Friday within the framework of the visit of the governmental and business delegation of Belarus to Serbia, with a view to intensifying the two countries' economic relations.

Belarus president receives Serbian Church medal

BELGRADE -- The Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Holy Synod presented on Thursday Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko with the medal of St. Sava.

Patriarch Irinej said during the ceremony that Serbia would never forget the support Belarus had provided regarding Kosovo.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Holy Synod of Bishops presented on Thursday Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko with the medal of St Sava, while Patriarch Irinej said Serbia would never forget the support Belarus had provided regarding Kosovo.

Irinej presented Lukashenko with the medal, the SPC stated.