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Palace of Independence hosts Belarus New Year's Eve Ball

MINSK, 24 December (BelTA) – The New Year's Eve Ball at the Palace of Independence has brought together young hopefuls from all over Belarus, BelTA has learned.

Partaking in the New Year’s Eve Ball are 337 young men and women from all regions. They were invited to the event in recognition of their achievements in education, creative work, sports, social life. The ball has brought together holders of scholarships of the president’s special fund for the social support of talented students, winners and participants of contests, academic excellence competitions, conferences, representatives of the volunteer movement and members of student brigades, winners of beauty pageants, medalists of sports competitions.

Partaking in the event are also Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, State Secretary of the Security Council Aleksandr Volfovich, Deputy Head of the Belarus President Administration Igor Lutsky, Culture Minister Anatoly Markevich, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Petrishenko, Chairman of the Minsk City Hall Vladimir Kukharev, member of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly Dmitry Baskov, member of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly Maria Vasilevich.

The participants and guests of the New Year’s Eve Ball were welcomed by Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko.

“Dear friends, what can I say after seeing this beauty? It is hard to speak even for me – a person who is used to speaking,” the head of state could not hide his emotions.

“For four years in a row we have been holding this ball in the Palace of Independence on the eve of this long-awaited holiday restoring historical traditions (I emphasize: our historical traditions), shaping the modern image of our young sovereign state,” the Belarusian leader said.

The president remarked that Belarus is the country of castles and palaces where Viennese, Polish and Russian Balls were held. “They were organized by representatives of local nobility. However, back then they were the subjects of different states. This beautiful tradition became ours, it became the Belarusian tradition only in the history of our independence,” the head of state stressed.

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