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About 30,000 biometric passports and ID cards have been issued in Belarus over the course of two months, BelTA learned from an interview with Head of the Citizenship and Migration Department of the Belarusian Internal Affairs Ministry, Police Colonel Aleksei Begun. The interview is published on the ministry's website.

More than 1,400 haulers were queuing in Belarus to cross the border with the European Union as of 10.00 on 2 November, BelTA learned from the website of the State Border Committee.

According to the Belarusian Embassy in Egypt, two Belarusian minors are among the victims of food poisoning in Hurghada, BelTA learned from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus.

The Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission adopted an action plan on abolishing roaming charges in the Eurasian Economic Union at a session on 29 October, BelTA learned from Iya Malkina, a spokeswoman of the Eurasian Economic Commission.

Russia's Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov hailed the high level of bilateral relations with Belarusian colleagues and the mutual desire to unite efforts, including in the fight against crime, the media liaison department at the Belarusian Prosecutor General's Office told BelTA following the working meeting of the prosecutors general of Belarus and Russia in Minsk on 28 October.

The Aviation Department of the Belarusian Transport and Communications Ministry has contacted the ICAO Council with a request for assistance with getting onboard instrumental data from the aircraft for the sake of investigating the Ryanair flight incident, BelTA has learned.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh commented on the situation with Iranian nationals stranded on the Belarus-Lithuania border, BelTA informs with reference to the Embassy of Iran in the Republic of Belarus.

An authorized body will be set up in Belarus to protect personal data, Andrei Pavlyuchenko, the Head of the Operations and Analysis Center under the President of the Republic of Belarus, told the media following the meeting with the head of state, BelTA has learned.

The Brest Oblast Union of Trade Unions and the Federation of Trade Unions of Russia's Rostov Oblast signed a cooperation agreement, BelTA learned from the press service of the regional association.

The defense ministries of Belarus and Russia held a session of the joint collegium in Moscow on 20 October, BelTA learned from the Defense Ministry.