Belarusian People’s Congress

MINSK, 6 June (BelTA) – The 5^th Belarusian People’s Congress is important to both policy makers and business, Director of the Office of the Interstate TV and Radio Company Mir in Belarus Vladimir Pertsov said at the TV show Club of Editors-in-Chief broadcasted on the Belarus One TV channel on 5 June, BelTA has learned.

“Today the public authorities and business need this Congress very much. Some five years ago when the plans for the five-year period were made, we could not imagine that such radical changes would take place in the world, in the political and economic life, that there would be sanctions against Russia, that the oil would cost less than $30, that the market of potash fertilizers, one of the main sources of the revenues to our budget, would be undermined,” stressed Vladimir Pertsov.

In his words, today it is a vital necessity to hold a wide discussion and determine the areas for the country’s development within the next five years. “There is a need to gather clever people from different corners of the country, listen, discuss and understand the right course to take, outline vectors for development in every field,” the media expert stressed.