Bird of the Year- Black Swift stamp from BELARUS

Stamp Name:Bird of the Year- Black Swift
Issue Date:22nd MARCH'2012
Details:

The Byelorussian Post has issued a stamp from the "Bird of the Year" series. In 2012 the stamp is dedicated to the Black swift. In flight, this bird looks like a flying cigar with long slender curved wings. Its plumage is mostly a sooty dark gray. There is some contrast between the upper and lower wing. The shoulders are much darker in color than the remaining portion of the wing. The bird also has a short slightly forked tail.

Designer: Alexander Mityanin. Printing: offset. Colour: full colour. Paper: chalk-surfaced, gummed. Perforation: comb 133/4: 131/2. Size of the stamp: 26×37 mm. Sheet composition: 7 stamps + 1 coupon. Size of the sheet: 128×108 mm. Print quantity: 70.000 stamps.
Letter “P” is equal to the air-mail tariff of a letter up to 20 gram abroad.

20th Anniversary of Establishing Diplomatic Relations between Belarus and China Souvenir sheet from BELARUS

Name of Stamp:20th Anniversary of Establishing Diplomatic Relations between Belarus and China.

Details:

On January 20, 2012 Belarus has issued the souvenir sheet entitled "20th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between the Republic of Belarus and the People's Republic of China".

The Agreement about establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries was signed in Beijing on January 20, 1992. During these years the Belarusian-Chinese relations have become a model of international partnership and strategic interaction.

The stamp features the national Emblems of the Nations; the souvenir sheet's background features an aurochs and a panda - animals-symbols of the countries.(Source-Stamp News)