Belarus to follow its own path of reforms, developing existing backbone industries - Lukashenko
<p> MINSK, Jul 15 - PrimePress. Belarus will continue going along its own path of reforms through upgrading what it already has, developing existing backbone industries, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said on July 15, 2020 at a meeting with Vitebsk Oblast functionaries, the presidential press office reports. </p> <p> </p> <p> “Reforms are not about destroying, tear down everything to the ground, and then building something instead. Do not fall for such nonsense. Our reform means improvement of what is already here. We must develop industries that are a backbone of Belarus, because we know how to do that. There is no need to demolish anything,” Lukashenko said, “Our reforms cannot be fake, enormous or “comprehensive”, as they use to say.” </p> <p> </p> <p> He said that enterprises, which Belarus no longer needs, are few, and the present-day financial bottleneck impedes reforms, Lukashenko said. “We can do everything, but huge resources are required for that, first of all, money, which we do not have in good supply. We do not have large reserves of hydrocarbons, gold, metals, and we have to make do with what we have to the best of our ability,” he said. “Exports will be in focus. Exports mean foreign exchange, without which the economy cannot function.” End </p>
2020-07-16
Primepress
MINSK, Jul 15 - PrimePress. Belarus will continue going along its own path of reforms through upgrading what it already has, developing existing backbone industries, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said on July 15, 2020 at a meeting with Vitebsk Oblast functionaries, the presidential press office reports.
“Reforms are not about destroying, tear down everything to the ground, and then building something instead. Do not fall for such nonsense. Our reform means improvement of what is already here. We must develop industries that are a backbone of Belarus, because we know how to do that. There is no need to demolish anything,” Lukashenko said, “Our reforms cannot be fake, enormous or “comprehensive”, as they use to say.”
He said that enterprises, which Belarus no longer needs, are few, and the present-day financial bottleneck impedes reforms, Lukashenko said. “We can do everything, but huge resources are required for that, first of all, money, which we do not have in good supply. We do not have large reserves of hydrocarbons, gold, metals, and we have to make do with what we have to the best of our ability,” he said. “Exports will be in focus. Exports mean foreign exchange, without which the economy cannot function.” End