Board meeting at the Department for Archives and Records Management of Belarus, 31 October

On 31 October 2012 the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry of the Republic of Belarus held a board meeting to discuss the issues of the state and amount of the records of the National Archival Fonds (NAF) of the Republic of Belarus held in the institutions sources of records acquisition for the state archives. Having read and discussed the report on the issue made by the adviser at the records management and the NAF formation, L. Tsymbal, the board noted that the preservation of records held in temporary custody promotes the qualitative formation of the National Archival Fonds of the Republic of Belarus. The analysis of the conditions and extent of the NAF records held in temporary storage at the institutions sources of records acquision for the state archives testify of the improvement of the state of the NAF records and the positive work conducted by the state archives in this area.

The director at the Belarusian Research Institute of Records Management and Archival Studies, A. Rybakov, informed the meeting participants on the 13th General EURASICA Conference and the meeting of the Consultative Council of the heads of the state archival services of the CIS member countries that took place in Tashkent, the Republic of Uzbekistan, on 4-7 October 2012.

The deputy director at the Department for Archives and Records Management of Belarus, O. Ledovskaya, informed the board members and guests of the decisions taken at the joint meeting of the boards of the Department for Archives and Records Management of Belarus and the Federal Archival Agency of Russia held at Pskov, Russian Federation on 17-18 October 2012.