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Lukashenko gives task to new MTZ director

MINSK, 20 November (BelTA) - While making personnel decisions on 20 November, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko tasked the new MTZ director general with intensifying work on equipment sales and quality, BelTA has learned.

Addressing the new director, the head of state laid out the tasks and warned that there was no time for a break-in period; from the very first days in the new position, the new director must work intensively, showing results immediately. “You’ll get a ‘warm-up’ in early January [2026], when you will have to report to me, together with the government, on your results, how many tractors you have in your warehouses, and why you haven’t sold them,”  Aleksandr Lukashenko said.

The president noted that some managers, instead of solving existing problems, have started citing certain “objective difficulties”. “You see, sanctions, this and that... But it’s not a war,” the head of state countered such arguments. “The whole world needs our tractors. Sell them. If something isn’t working at a given time, focus on quality. Produce a super-tractor that is the best in the world, and you’ll sell it at a better price. I, for example, see a way out of the current situation precisely in this.”

Aleksandr Lukashenko emphasized the need to promote export sales of domestic products at all levels, especially during official trips abroad.

“I have already given instructions to the prime minister and the entire government – to everyone, starting with Krutoi [Dmitry Krutoi, Head of the Belarus President Administration], even though this falls outside his direct responsibilities. And this directive applies to me as well. When you travel [abroad], the question is: how many tractors, combines, seeders, winnowers, cultivators, and disc harrows have you sold? What are your sales numbers? Otherwise, what was the purpose of your trip? This applies to everyone: the leadership of parliament and all high-ranking officials,” the head of state said.

“Things must not be bad at MTZ, Taras,” the president addressed Taras Murog, whose appointment as MTZ Director General has been approved. “It is a brand of our country. You know where are you going to work.”

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