Events

MINSK, 10 December (BelTA) – Nationwide executive conferences to discuss problems of various branches of the national economy will be regular and will be held at least every six months. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko made the statement at the nationwide executive conference held on 10 December to discuss problems of the civil engineering industry and improve the management of executive personnel, BelTA has learned.

The head of state said that the event was a momentous one. The President admitted that in his eyes the event resembled a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Back in the Soviet times executive personnel from all the regions would gather up for plenary meetings to openly discuss and jointly address the most important issues in the society life.

Nationwide executive conferences have been chosen in Belarus. The President explained that the format and the large number of participants were necessitated by the topicality of the items on the agenda and the need to discuss the real situation in very important spheres from multiple angles in order to reach every region and every organization.

“It is necessary to raise and suggest solutions to the hottest and most important issues concerning the development of the economy and the society not only at present but also in the medium term,” said Alexander Lukashenko.

The head of state said he believes that it was necessary to gather such executive conferences at least every six months in order to send a signal to the entire society about emerging problems and ways to resolve them on a systematic basis. In his words, such a format of interaction between the President and the country’s executive personnel has not been worked out yet at the top level. “Moreover, we have even lost the accomplishments secured by the previous personnel of the Belarus President Administration. Therefore, we have agreed that in the future such conferences will be the norm,” stressed Alexander Lukashenko. The President instructed the government to contact the Belarus President Administration to submit proposals regarding the industries that should be discussed at consequent conferences. According to the head of state, problems of the housing and utilities industry and the development of the agribusiness require discussion in the first place.

Speaking about the 10 December conference, the President said there were two items on the agenda: problems plaguing the civil engineering industry and the need to improve the management of executive personnel. Alexander Lukashenko explained the choice of the construction industry as a discussion point: “Because, first, people complain a great deal about this industry. Second, it truly has accumulated so many negative things that decisive actions at all levels of the government, including the top level, are needed to overcome them”.

The President made it clear that the construction industry as a whole and housing construction in particular are the branches, which performance directly affects destinies of many people. Alexander Lukashenko said that a lot had changed since the USSR time but homes are still regarded as the most important category for assessing the wellbeing of every person, every family. “People spare no expense to build a house, an apartment. Huge financial resources on the scale of an average man are needed to build a home. And people either have to save money their entire life or borrow heavily and pay out loans through the nose”.

According to the President, serious problems of the country’s entire civil engineering industry are concentrated in housing construction. Apart from objective factors the state of affairs has been brought about by, first and foremost, subjective factors, Alexander Lukashenko is convinced. “In essence, most of the problems have been created by executives, designers, construction companies and all of us. In order to overcome this lot of negative things an interagency working group with broad powers had to be created. I emphasize – an interagency group — because uncoordinated actions, lack of discipline, mutual complaints of various structures and narrow corporate interests had affected the construction industry,” said the President. He reminded that the group had been tasked with examining drawbacks at all stages of the investment process and sketching out ways out for the construction industry for the near term and the medium term using international experience.