Upper chamber passes bill to terminate Belarusian-French cultural cooperation

January 30, BPN. The Council of the Republic has approved a bill that would terminate a Belarusian-French agreement on cooperation in culture, education, science, technology and mass media, the upper house’s press office reports.

The agreement was concluded in 2010 and entered into force in 2011. The five-year deal was automatically extended as none of the signatories objected to this happening.

Senator Kaciaryna Sierafinovič said monitoring revealed that projects outlined by the deal “did not work,” and that France has been pursuing an “unfriendly policy” towards Belarus, state media reported.