Aleksandr Lukashenko address the 2nd Belarusian People's Congress, 2001/president.gov.by
MINSK, 19 December (BelTA) - The latest episode of the documentary series Time Chose Us aired by the Belarus 1 TV channel covered the 2nd Belarusian People’s Congress in 2001, BelTA has learned.
Leaving the shock therapy of the 1990s behind, Belarus managed to establish a national tradition of evolutionary transformations. Leading economists of that time, who denied the Belarusian way of development, preferred not to comment on the results obtained by the Belarusian economy. The enterprises that many suggested selling as a dead load began to produce results. Science-intensive manufactures and semiconductor electronics were developing.
“Today, this sector in the CIS and Russia is struggling. But microelectronics has survived in Belarus. It has been preserved primarily due to the reasonable policy of the country's leadership,” Nobel Prize winner in Physics Zhores Alferov remarked from the rostrum of the 2nd Belarusian People’s Congress.
The delegates also emphasized the value of inter-confessional peace and cooperation. Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk and Slutsk, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus, voiced a special formula of interaction between church and state. Today his words can be considered a prophetic message on ways to preserve peace and harmony in society.
“We have drawn up the programs of joint action between church and state which correspond to the nature of the church and do not suggest the involvement of the church in the areas of activity that are not proper to it,” Metropolitan Filaret said in his speech.
Polish politicians did not like this. The press relentlessly made an enemy of the people out of Jan Syczewski. The ethnic Belarusian felt the full force of the Western ‘freedom of speech’
The tasks set at the first congress of our country's supreme organ of people's power were successfully fulfilled, and the economic growth targets were even exceeded. Among the priorities of the state were exports, housing and food. Those were the country’s pressing needs.
“Behind them were simple people’s needs: work, a roof over a head, food. It could not be otherwise, if the main thing for the state is an individual,” Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he addressed the 2nd Belarusian People’s Congress in 2001.
Leaving the shock therapy of the 1990s behind, Belarus managed to establish a national tradition of evolutionary transformations. Leading economists of that time, who denied the Belarusian way of development, preferred not to comment on the results obtained by the Belarusian economy. The enterprises that many suggested selling as a dead load began to produce results. Science-intensive manufactures and semiconductor electronics were developing.
“Today, this sector in the CIS and Russia is struggling. But microelectronics has survived in Belarus. It has been preserved primarily due to the reasonable policy of the country's leadership,” Nobel Prize winner in Physics Zhores Alferov remarked from the rostrum of the 2nd Belarusian People’s Congress.
The delegates also emphasized the value of inter-confessional peace and cooperation. Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk and Slutsk, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus, voiced a special formula of interaction between church and state. Today his words can be considered a prophetic message on ways to preserve peace and harmony in society.
“We have drawn up the programs of joint action between church and state which correspond to the nature of the church and do not suggest the involvement of the church in the areas of activity that are not proper to it,” Metropolitan Filaret said in his speech.
Jan Syczewski, member of the Polish Sejm and chairman of the Belarusian Social and Cultural Association of Poland, was among the speakers at the 2nd Belarusian People’s Congress. The politician expressed the opinion that the main reason for the tense relations between Belarus and Poland was the dependence of Warsaw on other states.
Polish politicians did not like this. The press relentlessly made an enemy of the people out of Jan Syczewski. The ethnic Belarusian felt the full force of the Western ‘freedom of speech’
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