Lukashenko orders to expose western spies, who prevent state-owned companies from bypassing sanctions

<p> MINSK, Sep 23 – PrimePress. While hearing out reports presented by Industry Minister Piotr Parkhomchik and Vice Premier Yuri Nazarov on 23 Sep 2021, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko instructed to identify western informers at state-owned companies, who prevent the latter from bypassing western sanctions. </p> <p>   </p> <p> Lukashenko said: “We just do not have the right to decline. We have to keep this level whatever it takes. I know that you have taken a number of decisions in the government to minimize the impact of sanctions on our economy. But take a look at employees at your companies. I have information that there are still a few scoundrels there, and they aim to inform the collective West about how Parkhomchik and Nazarov are trying to bypass sanctions. They, in fact, spy and pass the information there.” </p> <p>   </p> <p> “We have identified a few of them. They will go to jail, and for a long time. That is for sure. But, nevertheless, there are still others. These are not just people who express their civic position. These are people who are consciously harming our economy and our state for the money of the Western secret services. You should draw special attention of the heads of the companies to these facts and monitor these matters yourselves,” the president’s press-service reported citing Lukashenko as saying. </p> <p>   </p> <p> Lukashenko asked about the financial condition of industrial enterprises. He also recalled that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and he had previously negotiated joint efforts to promote the microelectronics industry. Lukashenko emphasized: “We should work harder in order to be able to compete with those who call the shots in the world today.” </p> <p>   </p> <p> As previously reported, the European Union imposed sanctions against major sectors of the Belarusian economy since 25 June 2021, and on 9 August the US, the UK and Canada imposed sectoral sanctions. Earlier, the EU imposed three more parcels of sanctions, which it justified by the escalation of human rights violations in Belarus after the August 2020 presidential election. The overall sanctions list includes 166 individuals and 15 organizations and companies. A fifth package of sanctions against Belarus in connection with the migration crisis at the EU border is the pipeline. </p> <p>   </p> <p> Presidents of Belarus and Russia Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin, at a meeting in Moscow on 9 September 2021, reconciled all 28 union programmes to deepen integration between the two countries. On 10 Sep 2021 the Council of Ministers of the Union State approved the 2021-2023 guidelines for the implementation of the provisions of the Treaty on the Creation of the Union State and 28 Union State programmes aimed to accomplish major aspects of strengthening Russia-Belarus integration. </p> <p> According to Lukashenko, the union programmes are to be approved at the meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State on 4 November 2021. Putin informed that Russia and Belarus had agreed to move to a single industrial policy, common access to public procurement contracts. End </p>

2021-09-24

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