Opinion: Lukashenko sets high pace of communication, co-operation, and African countries support him
Simple principles of interaction between states are primarily based on profitable trade, production, scientific goals, projects, and on improving the well-being of two, three or more states involved in general co-operation – as noted by Aleksei Avdonin, an analyst at the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research (BISR), in his talk with Alfa Radio
According to the political expert, both Belarus’ President Aleksandr Lukashenko and his entire entourage are working on an extremely busy schedule, organising international meetings with various states, “We see that these are not just protocol meetings within the framework of the Dubai summit. We see that both the President and everyone around our Head of State are working on an extremely tight schedule. They are always results-oriented, preparing the relevant documents, proposals, organising visits and meetings in a very short time. We see that, e.g., African countries support this dynamic. The President sets a very high pace of communication and co-operation, and African countries support him, being interested in this. They don’t reject us.”
Aleksei Avdonin noted, “The main thing is to determine that in future the implementation of many projects will still affect our managers at different levels. The Head of State’s main task is that this does not go into some kind of bureaucracy; all projects and obligations must be fully implemented within the framework of roadmaps. Because behind these agreements are the enormous efforts of our President and his team. And behind our managers are ordinary citizens, who also want to see results and, most importantly, get results from all these meetings and projects. The result is to have new points of interaction, new jobs, increased salaries and, in the end, overall prosperity.”
Programme host Vadim Shepet noted that such a number of international visits by the President shatters the myth that Belarus is isolated and that they do not want to work or liaise with it. The BISR analyst agreed with this, “This also suggests that the propaganda, the harsh rhetoric that the West has been trying to promote to the world community among the leaders of other states for the past three years has been a fiasco. We see that everyone is not focusing on some virtual contradictions or ugly picture, but is focusing on healthy economy. Simple principles of interaction between states are primarily based on profitable trade, production, scientific goals, projects, and on improving the well-being of two, three or more states involved in general co-operation. This cannot be overcome by any propaganda. When state leaders meet and determine the goods and technologies they have and are ready to share, then what kind of propaganda can we talk about here? Where are these Americans sitting when the two states’ leaders are discussing important financial and economic issues? They don’t sit anywhere!”
