Official negotiations between Belarusian Defense Minister, Lieutenant-General Viktor Khrenin and First Deputy Defense Minister, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan, Lieutenant-General Murat Bektanov took place in Minsk, representatives of the Defense Ministry told BelTA.

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko heard out a report of Belarus' Emergencies Minister Vadim Sinyavsky on 2 August, BelTA has learned.

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko met with government officials to discuss topical issues of the social and political situation on 30 July, BelTA has learned.

Belarus and Kazakhstan are showing interest in expanding cooperation in the construction sector. The issue was discussed at a meeting between Belarus' Architecture and Construction Minister Ruslan Parkhamovich and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Belarus Asqar Beisenbaev, BelTA learned from the ministry.

Over 1,500 haulers were queuing in Belarus to cross the border with the European Union as of 08.00 on 28 July, BelTA learned from the website of the State Border Committee.

The synergy of Belarusian and Russian scientific expertise facilitates the forward movement of the two countries, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said as he met with a delegation of the Russian national research center Kurchatov Institute led by its President Mikhail Kovalchuk on 27 July, BelTA has learned.

Russia will increase the number of Moscow-Minsk flights and will authorize flights from Sochi and Krasnodar to Minsk from 1 August. The appropriate decision was made by the Russian operational headquarters for the fight against the coronavirus, BelTA has learned.

The first army train carrying Russian troops and hardware arrived in Brest ahead of the Belarusian-Russian strategic army exercise Zapad 2021 [West 2021], the Belarusian Defense Ministry told BelTA.

The National Center for Intellectual Property of Belarus and the National Institute of Intellectual Property of Kazakhstan signed a memorandum of understanding on 21 July. The document was signed by the heads of the two agencies Vladimir Ryabolovov and Yerbol Ospanov, BelTA learned from the press service of the State Science and Technology Committee of Belarus.

There is a proposal to increase the length of the parliamentary term from four to five years, Chairman of the Constitutional Commission, Chairman of the Constitutional Court Piotr Miklashevich said on 21 July, BelTA has learned.