Lukashenko on ecological norms and requirements: irrational and excessively tight at times
During today’s meeting on waste management and use of secondary material resources, President of Belarus Aleksandr required from the Government the proposals regarding liability measures for objective violations of the urban improvement regulations and the order on the land
In particular, Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed that the population and organisations have plenty of questions to environmental norms and requirements, “In some cases they are irrational and excessively tight. Suppose, why an old farm doesn't pose an ‘environmental threat’, but once it's demolished, it becomes a huge problem to bury the waste or fill a rural road with it? From another perspective, what proposals does the Government have on liability measures for objective violations of the urban improvement regulations and the order on the land? For citizens these are, for example, unmowed areas, fallen fences, rubbish on the household territory, etc. Ensure we avoid an unpleasant conversation for New Year. This Saturday I toured around all the villages in the north of the Minsk District, checking the fields and how you manage them. It's a total mess! Please bear that in mind. The conversation will be tough. If, let’s say, there’s a lonely pensioner or a disabled person — the local authorities must help. The village councils should arrange it. If a person has healthy children and grandchildren, let them work on this site. If they refuse, use fines to make them work. They've become shameless. What are you expecting, a war?"
According to the President, the same happens on the territories of enterprises, “It may be poor, at least it’s clean. This is not something I made up — it is a long tradition of elementary order in everything. As the classic [Russian novelist Mikhail Bulgakov] said: ‘The rack and ruin are not in the bathrooms, but in the heads’.”
Aleksandr Lukashenko required the speakers to clearly answer the questions posed, as well as to report on the further strategy of all-type waste management and on the progress on his instruction to provide the glass industry with domestic stock materials. The President's instruction remains unchanged: to make the country ‘squeaky-clean’ in the Year of Improvement.
