MINSK, 20 November (BelTA) – Belarusian scientists and manufacturing sector specialists should work together and should definitely produce concrete results. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko gave the relevant instruction as he made a number of personnel management decisions on 20 November, BelTA has learned.
“Today you and I will have a brief, man-to-man conversation,” the president warned as he addressed the new heads of the State Committee on Science and Technology, higher education institutions, and the tractor manufacturing company MTZ. “Time for concrete deeds has come”.
According to Aleksandr Lukashenko, their work should produce results. Well-deserved rewards can be discussed then. “Give me results and feel free to earn as much as you want. But if you have nothing to show for it, then we have nothing to talk about,” the head of state explained.
“I would very much like all of you to produce results. Including scientists and manufacturers. And better yet if you do it together,” Aleksandr Lukashenko continued.
This is why the president recalled how he had been recently approached with suggestions to elevate the status of Belarusian scientists. The need for the state to make the relevant decisions was mentioned. Aleksandr Lukashenko remarked that the status of a scientist depends primarily on efforts of the scientist themselves. And if the efforts are efficient and significant, then they would naturally result in growing respect for the scientist and for the people the scientist works with.
“Scientists should make themselves with their own efforts,” the Belarusian leader is convinced. “If tomorrow [during the big conversation the president is expected to have with representatives of the scientific community] scientists come with wailing and philosophy in favor of elevating the status and doing something else, then they’d better not come to me.”
The same principle is applicable to representatives of the manufacturing sector. “I can say the same about companies like MAZ, BelAZ, MTZ, Gomselmash, and so on. Go to scientists. You will not advance without science. Formulate tasks for them, order your own R&D projects, work out programs. Then we will hold scientists accountable,” the head of state encouraged.
Speaking about the overall coordination of scientific efforts in the country, Aleksandr Lukashenko said that all the decisions had been made, the system had been established. These functions are primarily the purview of the State Committee on Science and Technology, which can be described as kind of a State Control Committee in charge of overseeing science. “There is no need to invent anything. Because some have already moved away from science. Their management efforts prompted their removal. And now they are ready to build a power vertical and manage things. We have the State Committee on Science and Technology for that. It is supposed to formulate practical tasks for scientists, finance projects, and hold people accountable. Exercise control, organize things, manage, and produce results,” Aleksandr Lukashenko formulated a number of tasks.
Speaking about personnel shuffle in the leadership of the State Committee on Science and Technology and about the appointment of First Deputy Chairman Denis Korzhitsky as the committee’s chairman, the president formulated certain concerns: “We have concluded that the current executive is not up to the task and needs to be replaced. But didn’t the first deputy chairman have nothing to do with what is going on in the State Committee on Science and Technology?” the head of state wondered. “You are directly connected to the failures and grand victories achieved by the State Committee on Science and Technology. I ask you to keep it in mind. And there can be no arguments that another person was in charge of things while I played a supporting role.”
“You are a man of learning. You are the elite of our society. If you saw something out of kilter, then in your capacity as the first deputy chairman you should have made reports and alerted every authority,” Aleksandr Lukashenko added. “Remember it. It is a lesson for you as a young person.” Now the new executive has all the opportunities for showing his worth and he is expected to produce concrete results. “If you fail, you will not be employed anywhere in the country and abroad. It is the only thing I can tell you,” the president cautioned.
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