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Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko is on a visit to Russia, the Pul Pervogo Telegram channel informed, BelTA has learned.

“June 23 and 24 the two presidents hold informal talks in Zavidovo. The official program is scheduled for Saturday,” the Telegram channel reports.

The working meeting of the two leaders will be held in St. Petersburg on 25 June. It is noteworthy that this day marks 30 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Belarus and Russia.

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Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko is on a visit to Russia, the Pul Pervogo Telegram channel informed, BelTA has learned.

“Today and tomorrow the two presidents will have informal talks in Zavidovo. The official program is scheduled for Saturday,” the Telegram channel reports.

The working meeting of the two leaders will be held in St. Petersburg on 25 June. It is noteworthy that this day marks 30 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Belarus and Russia.

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While talking to workers of the agricultural company Yubileiny in Orsha District, Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko explained on what conditions those who had previously fled the country might come back, BelTA has learned.

Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “They ran away to foreign countries but now 95% of them want to come back. They already write it openly: ‘If only Aleksandr Grigoryevich [Lukashenko] could pardon us and open the border…' 95% would come back. I don't mind: they are free to go to prison and face other punishments they deserve. They have to come back. They will not be able to naturalize over there.”

In his words, many countries where self-exiled Belarusian opposition activists went to started welcoming refugees from Ukraine later on but due to problems caused by the strong migration they started offering less and less aid to emigrants from other countries. “Ours have been pushed aside already, everyone wants to go home,” Aleksandr Lukashenko remarked.

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The task is to reach a gross grain harvest of 9-10 million tonnes in the near term, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said during a working visit to Mogilev Oblast on 20 June, BelTA has learned.

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko is starting a new week with a working trip to his native land - the agricultural town of Alexandria, Shklov District - where he will discuss the state and prospects of the country's agricultural industry, BelTA informs.

Belarus does not intend to fight in Ukraine. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the statement while talking to workers of the Bobruisk-based tire manufacturer OAO Belshina on 17 June, BelTA has learned.

Aleksandr Lukashenko is convinced that the West is intent on getting Belarus involved in this conflict. “Putin has never asked me to go and kill someone in Ukraine and the rest. But they [the West] are pushing us towards this conflict in order to sort out both Russia and Belarus and set up a frontline – a line from St Petersburg to Rostov. In order to get rid of this Belarusian balcony as they call it. They failed in 2020. They continue doing it using other methods,” the head of state noted.

Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed that Belarus should not get involved in this conflict and should not start “a little war”. He said: “We have to protect this piece of land [Belarus]. Thank god, we've been able to for now. The most important thing for me is to get the Ukrainian conflict to end as fast as possible instead of getting involved up to my ears in it.”

The head of state also assured that Belarus is not going to fight in Ukraine. “I was already asked this question in private yesterday: is your army going to invade Ukraine? I said we are not going to go anywhere until you cross the red line. Once you cross our border or target Mozyr Oil Refinery (they had a crazy idea like that), we will respond immediately. This is why leave us alone, we are not going to go to you. If you grab our drivers like those 75 people, then we will stage an operation. A multitier one. If we cannot retrieve these people peacefully, then we will stage a military operation. But we will not abandon our people. What did you think? 75 people are someone's children, they have children and grandchildren. This is why we had to take chances. Thank god, everyone is alive and healthy,” he stated.

The Belarusian leader also underlined the importance of military training, of reinforcing the Belarusian army: “We are going to train, particularly men. Because time is like this. The more we have and the more powerful our weapons are, the calmer we will feel. They will understand that if they hit Mozyr, then we will hit Kiev without going inside Ukraine. They have to understand it. But in order to deliver a strike, one needs something to strike with. We have that.”

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Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has signed decree No.203 “On selling potash fertilizers,” the press service of the head of state told BelTA.

The document is designed to expand the types of currencies, which can be used to pay the export customs duty on potash fertilizers. The decree allows paying the export customs duty on potash fertilizers in Russian rubles, Chinese yuans, U.S. dollars, and euros.

The decree also authorized the Council of Ministers to make decisions on setting the rate of the export customs duty on potash fertilizers in 2022-2023.

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Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has sent greetings to participants of the international parliamentary conference “Historical Memory: The Great Victory Gained by Unity”, BelTA learned from the press service of the head of state.

“We, successors of the victors - Azerbaijanis and Moldovans, Belarusians and Georgians, Armenians and Kazakhs, Ukrainians and Kyrgyz, Russians and Uzbeks, Tajiks and Turkmens, representatives of all ethnicities of the once united country, defended the right to life, freedom and human dignity in the Great Patriotic War. Now that many Western countries are canceling our Victory, massively destroying monuments to the liberators and celebrating murderers and executioners as heroes, we have committed ourselves to defending the historical memory of the selfless struggle of the Soviet people against the German Nazis who killed millions of our compatriots,” the message of greetings reads.

The head of state emphasized that for Belarus that lost every third resident in that war, the nationwide feat is part and parcel of the national idea: “We were the first in the post-Soviet space to enshrine the provisions on the inadmissibility of falsification of this feat in the Constitution of the country.”

“I am convinced that together we will preserve the common heroic past, we will not allow the Victory won by unity, exceptional courage and sacrifice of soldiers, partisans, underground fighters and many ordinary people to be taken away from us, and we will pass on this truth to future generations,” Aleksandr Lukashenko stated.

The president wished fruitful work, health, peace and good to all participants of the conference.

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We cannot be confined to the national borders in microelectronics. We must work in close cooperation with Russia, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at a government session to discuss the development of the microelectronic industry in the country in Minsk on 14 June, BelTA has learned.

"We cannot stay confined to national borders. This will not yield the desired effect," the Belarusian leader stressed speaking about the microelectronics development prospects. “We need to cooperate not only where we are welcome, for example, in Russia, but also where we are not welcome - with the Americans, the Japanese and so on. At least we need to see the level to which aspire."

"We must work, of course, in close cooperation with Russia. We do not hide our interest in this regard. All the developments that we have (scientific, experimental and design) can be realized only thanks to timely financing. Russia is ready to finance us in this regard. President Putin and I have talked about this many times and have come to this agreement." The Belarusian head of state noted that Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov has been put in charge of this matter.

"The interest is enormous," the head of state continued. "Today, no one needs to be convinced of the need for close cooperation, as was the case before in power engineering, agricultural machinery and automotive components."

Aleksandr Lukashenko suggested setting up a Belarusian-Russian body to coordinate joint work. A proposal has been once made to set up a Belarusian-Russian ministry. “If we create some kind of structure that will be above our ministries, this will not solve the problem. This will only entail money expenditures. Therefore, we need to seriously think about the way to coordinate our work and who will deal with it," the president added.

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Effective work with the population is an indicator of the competency of municipal authorities. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the statement during the national seminar-conference held on 10 June to discuss new methods and forms of public communication at the grassroots level, BelTA has learned.

Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “You know that effective work with the population is an indicator of the competency of top officials of oblast administrations, district administrations, and individual enterprises. And complaints are an indicator of our shortcomings. Ideally there should be no complaints. Certainly, it is next to impossible to achieve that but we should endeavor to do it. That's what I wanted to say about work with people's complaints and queries.”

Aleksandr Lukashenko described information and communication work as another significant aspect of the work of civil servants. “We understand how important it is today to wisely use all opportunities, including those provided by digital resources, how important it is to establish interaction with mass media. We see how information is spread in the blink of an eye, most blatant fakes at times, thus creating the foundation for social fallout. We see how important it is to promptly respond to leaks, explain the decisions that have been made to people, and involve them in the government process, adequately respond to creative initiatives originating from the people,” he said.

In his words, all of those are not new issues, close attention was always paid to them. “But some aspects may have been underestimated. Technically all the decisions made in the early years of sovereign Belarus still hold true. Only we have changed. The society has reached a new level of intellectual and technological development. Things that were novelties a quarter of a century ago are now part of the daily routine,” the Belarusian leader stated.

Aleksandr Lukashenko remarked that time has come to analyze the work that had been done and possibly adjust some approaches. “If there are methods you believe are outdated, nothing prevents you from abandoning them. If you are ready to suggest more progressive mechanisms of interaction between the power vertical and the population, let's discuss it and make decisions right away,” he added.

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