Belarus has approved the composition of the Belarusian part of the Belarusian-Russian committee that will coordinate the implementation of the Belarusian-Russian intergovernmental agreement of 15 March 2011 on cooperation in building a nuclear power plant in Belarus. The relevant decision is laid down by Council of Ministers executive order No. 7 of 8 January 2015, the press service of the Belarus government told BelTA.

Belarusian Energy Minister Mikhail Mikhadyuk will be the chairman of the Belarusian part of the joint coordinating committee. Deputy Architecture and Construction Minister Sergei Lastochkin will be his deputy. Apart from that, the Belarusian part of the Belarusian-Russian coordinating committee includes First Deputy Director of the Construction Oversight Department of the State Standardization Committee Yuri Bulakhov, Director of the company OAO NII Stroyekonomika Piotr Zhabko, Head of the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry Olga Lugovskaya, advisor of the Economic Cooperation and Sustainable Development Office of the Central Office for Multilateral Diplomacy of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Igor Mishkorudnyi, Director General of the enterprise Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant Mikhail Filimonov, and Director of the Nuclear Energy Department of the Belarusian Energy Ministry Stanislav Chernousov.

The Belarusian Foreign Ministry has been instructed to inform the Russian Federation government about the composition of the Belarusian part of the Belarusian-Russian coordinating committee.

The executive order comes into force as of the publication date.

The Belarusian nuclear power plant is a project to build an AES-2006 type nuclear power plant 18km away from Ostrovets, Grodno Oblast. The power plant will have two power-generating units with the total output capacity of up to 2,400MW (2x1,200MW). The Russian merged company OAO NIAEP – ZAO ASE is the general designer and the general contractor of the project. In line with the general contract for building the nuclear power plant the first power-generating unit is scheduled for commissioning in 2018, with the second one to go online in 2020.