Belarus to make own privatization decisions
11.12.2012,
18:03
Belarus will pursue an independent privatization policy, Belorussian president Alexander Lukashenko said at the meeting with members of the Club of Editors-in-Chief of the CIS, Baltic States and Georgia, BelTA nes agency reported.

YEREVAN, December 11. / ARKA /. Belarus will pursue an independent privatization policy, Belorussian president Alexander Lukashenko said at the meeting with members of the Club of Editors-in-Chief of the CIS, Baltic States and Georgia, BelTA nes agency reported.
“We get numerous suggestions regarding privatization, some of which insist on mass privatization. They say that Lukashenko is against privatization because he rejected all the privatization lists. I threw these lists away and said: we are not against privatization; any company in our country can be transferred into private ownership. The question is about the terms and the price,” Alexander Lukashenko said.
“It is true; there is a lot of bureaucracy in our privatization system. But it is natural. The work of many generations was invested there,” the Belarusian leader said.
Lukashenko reminded about the negative experience of other former USSR republics that opted for the mass privatization. Now many people, not only communists, believe that the results of the privatization should be revised, Alexander Lukashenko said. In his words, Belarus did not allow this kind of privatization to happen; the country opted for targeted privatization making this process open and transparent.
“However, they keep pushing for doing it otherwise. It is our domestic matter what to privatize and how,” Alexander Lukashenko said. -0-