Workshop meeting on innovations in the Belarus Law on Archives and Records Management of the Republic of Belarus, 21 November 2012

On 21 November 2012 the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry of the Republic of Belarus held a workshop meeting at the conference hall of the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus to discuss the issues relating to the innovations in the Belarus Law on Archives and Records Management of the Republic of Belarus dated 25 November 2011 and the follow-up changes in the normative and legal framework for archives and records management.

The workshop was attended by the heads for archives and records management at the main justice boards of the Minsk city and regional executive committees, directors of the state archival institutions (republic-level, regional and local) and legal experts.

In opening the workshop meeting, the director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry of the Republic of Belarus, Vladimir Adamushko drew the participants’ attention to the necessity of the strict observance in daily routine of the normative and legal acts governing the activities in the field of archives and records management.

The speakers at the workshop were the Department’s division heads and the director of the Belarusian Research Institute of Records Management and Archival Studies (BelNIIDAD). The workshop results were reviewed by the Department’s first deputy director Olga Biryukova.