r PAVLOV, chairman]; Civic
Accord Bloc (United Civic Party) or CAB [Stanislav BOGDANKEVICH,
chairman]; Party of People's Concord [Leonid SECHKO, chairman]; Party
of All-Belarusian Unity and Concord or UPNAZ [Dmitriy BULAKOV,
chairman]; Belarusian Social-Democrat Hramada or SDBP [Nikolay
STATKEVICH, chairman]; Belarusian Patriotic Movement (Belarusian
Patriotic Party) or BPR [Anatoliy BARANKEVICH]; Green Party of Belarus
or BPZ [Nikolay KARTASH, chairman]; Republican Party of Labor and
Justice or RPPS [Anatol NETYLKIN, chairman]; Belarusian Popular Front
or BNF [Levon BARSHEVSKIY, chairman]; Belarusian Social Sports Party
or BSSP [Aleksandr ALEKSANDROVICH, chairman]; Ecological Party or BEP
[Liudmila YELIZAROVA, chairman]; United Democratic Party of Belarus or
ADPB [Aleksandr DOBROVOLSKIY]; Slavic Assembly or SAB [Andrey
TSEGALKA]; Liberal-Democratic Party or LDPB [Sergei GAYDUKEVICH,
chairman]; Belarusian Christian-Democratic Unity or BKDZ [Petr SILKO];
Polish Democratic Union or PDZ [Eduard AKHREM]; Party of Beer Lovers
[Yuriy GONCHAR]; Party of Communists Belarusian or KPB [Sergei
KALYAKIN and Vasiliy NOVIKOV, chairmen]; Belarusian Labor Party or BPP
[Aleksandr BUKHVOSTOV]

International organization participation: BIS, CCC, CEI, CIS, EAPC,
EBRD, ECE, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Inmarsat, Intelsat
(nonsignatory user), Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), ISO, ITU, OSCE,
PCA, PFP, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTrO
(applicant)

Diplomatic representation in the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Valeriy V. TSEPKALO
chancery: 1619 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009
telephone: [1] (202) 986-1604
FAX: [1] (202) 986-1805
consulate(s) general: New York

Diplomatic representation from the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Daniel SPECKHARD
embassy: Starovilenskaya #46-220002, Minsk
mailing address: use embassy street address
telephone: [375] (172) 31-50-00
FAX: [375] (172) 34-78-53

Flag description: red horizontal band (top) and green horizontal band
one-half the width of the red band; a white vertical stripe of white
on the hoist side bears in red the Belarusian national ornament

@Belarus:Economy

Economy-overview: The Belarusian government has revived economic
output since mid-1996 by pursuing a policy of rapid credit expansion,
ending years of cumulative decline. Real GDP increased by 2.6% in 1996
and the growth rate tripled in 1997. Lack of profitability and
resurgent in