Aleksandr Lukashenko makes personnel decisions

    On 28 September President of the Republic of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko made a number of personnel decisions. The head of state has appointed:

    Vitaly Prima

    Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of India, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka with concurrent accreditation

    Vyacheslav Beskosty

    Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Gabonese Republic, the Republic of Gambia, the Republic of Cameroon, the Republic of Mali, the Republic of Senegal, and the Togolese Republic with concurrent accreditation

    Valery Kolesnik

    Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Iraq with concurrent accreditation

    Andrei Molchan

    Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Angola, the Republic of Mozambique, and the Republic of Namibia with concurrent accreditation

    Oleg Paferov

    Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Plurinational State of Bolivia and the Republic of Equador with concurrent accreditation

    The President also approved the appointment of:

    Vladimir Kukharev

    First Deputy Chairman of Minsk City Hall

    Andrei Gal

    Deputy Chairman of Minsk City Hall

    Alexander Krepak

    Head of the Partizansky District Administration of the City of Minsk

    Oleg Poskrobko

    Head of the Tsentralny District Administration of the City of Minsk

    Alexander Demidov

    Director General of Belarusian Oil Company

    Pavel Semenyuk

    Director General of Belresursy trade and production association

    Alexander Yanovsky

    Director General of Keramin OAO

    Anatoly Lysyuk

    Chairman of the Board of the Belarusian Bank of Development and Reconstruction Belinvestbank

    Appointing Vitaly Prima as the Ambassador of Belarus to India and Sri Lanka with concurrent accreditation, the head of state stressed that this region is very important for Belarus, first of all, from the point of view of industry.

    “India is a very promising market for us; it is a huge country with huge consumption of all kinds of products. I have been to India, they think very much of us. They are ready to collaborate with us, starting from commodity supplies to R&D solutions and research projects. They need our technologies, however we do not work there hard enough,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.

    Approving the appointment of several Minsk administration executives, the President emphasized that Minsk should become an exemplary city, including its administration.

    “To tell you the truth, I have twice had the desire to lock the Minsk city hall late at night, seal all doors for 24 hours and appoint a new mayor in the morning, maybe even a military man, an ‘iron’ man, who would hire executives within a short time so that they could fire a lot of the personnel in the administrative body to make it lean and fit,” the head of state said.

    “So I am sincerely in public repeating the desire I have had twice once again. I would love it to be the last time,” the President warned. “Expect no leniency. Understand me any way you want. You should be more interested in it than me, you are Minsk residents, you grew up here,” he added.

    Aleksandr Lukashenko made it clear that red-tape practices in the operation of the Minsk City Executive Committee must be eradicated, particularly in work with investors. “A concrete answer must be given to a concrete question: yes or no. I need decisiveness, not red-taping. No long conferences, particularly in working hours, take it into account. And you should seek different views instead of nipping an initiative in the bud,” the head of state said.