MINSK, 20 November (BelTA) – I will plant potatoes gifted by the Belarusian president in my hometown, Khizri Asadulayev, a well-known public figure of Dagestan, artist, sculptor, poet, musician, chairman of the International Public Association Goro, said at a meeting of the Advisory Interethnic Council under the Commissioner for Religious and Ethnic Affairs, which was held in an informal setting on 20 November, BelTA has learned.
The members of the Interethnic Advisory Council discussed several important topics, including the 12 September meeting of Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko with representatives of ethnic groups living in Belarus.
The chairman of the public association Goro told how he got two bags of potatoes from the president. Some time after the meeting with the head of state, Press Secretary of the President Natalya Eismont called him to say that Aleksandr Grigorievich assigned her to give him a symbolic gift.
“In the spring, I will take these potatoes to the mountains to plant, and in the fall I will fly to harvest them. The whole process (from planting to harvesting) will be filmed for the Belarusian television,” said Khizri Asadulayev.
He invited the members of the Advisory Interethnic Council to Dagestan for the Belarusian festival of draniki made of potatoes of the new harvest. The representatives of the diasporas discussed the possible trip.
The chairperson of the public association of Dagestanians said that the idea to hold a festival of Belarusian potatoes was voiced in the government of Dagestan, and the proposal received positive feedback. He is confident that this will be a grandiose event that will strengthen friendship between the two peoples.
Following the meeting with the head of state, a lot of positive feedback has been received, the Chairman of the Advisory Interethnic Council, Chairman of the public association Minsk City Armenian Cultural and Educational Society Hayastan Georgy Yeghiazaryan added. “It was a very good meeting,” he said.
The meeting also discussed the election campaign. The members of the council joined the people's flash mob Nado! [You must], saying the key word in their native languages. This was a logical continuation of the symbolic action held during the September meeting.
Then the representatives of diasporas presented a Belarusian rushnyk with the word “Peace” written on it in 26 languages to the president. The participants also discussed holding charity concerts at the National Rehabilitation Center for Disabled Children on 29 November and at the Social and Educational Center with the Orphanage of Frunzensky District of Minsk on 20 December, the upcoming joint trip to the Brest Fortress, and a number of organizational issues.
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