Lukashenko demands to speed up implementation of key tasks envisaged until 2025
The President demanded to speed up implementation of a number of tasks envisaged by the 2020-2025 development plan during today’s meeting on a draft law On the Improvement of Socio-Economic Policy of the Republic of Belarus
Aleksandr Lukashenko noted that, at the moment, a reduction in physical volumes of sales of potassium and petroleum products is registered. “These two positions (which share makes 13 percent) have influenced the overall result of the industrial complex and further – the transport sphere and wholesale trade,” he said.
The President recalled the current tasks of the forecast of socio-economic development for 2022, “[These include] to strive for 100 percent, but without washing out scarce working capital and increasing warehouse stocks; to ensure employment of people; to prevent the shutdown of production; and to maintain the current level of income. Those who have higher labour productivity should pay more. The Government's task is to support state employees, pensioners and socially vulnerable citizens. It is necessary to fulfil everything that has been promised.”
The Head of State also commented on the tools to solve the tasks set, “[Among them are] urgent reorientation of export flows; austerity of budget expenditures, especially for non-emergency construction sites, equipment purchases and the like; aggressive import substitution within the framework of the programmes and plans that we have ourselves approved. This should be done not until 2025 – as planned, but preferably in a year and a half. The priority is also clear: these are large and small industrial production facilities, both state-run and private.”
