Republic
02.11.2007
Science should play the leading role in the innovation development of Belarus and in stimulating investment projects, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko told the First Congress of Belarus’ Scientists on November 2.
According to the head of state, last year the Third All-Belarusian People’s Congress adopted quite an ambitious programme for the social and economic development of the country in 2006-2010 with a view to further improving living standards of the people. “The programme provides for an innovation-based development of the economy, stimulation of effective investment projects, structural remodelling, technological retooling and refitting of manufacturing industries, reinforcement of the national security. It is science that is called upon to play the leading role in reaching these goals. We have the conditions for that,” stressed the President.
The First Congress of Belarus’ Scientists gathered the best scientists, the scientific elite, the most respected people of the country, who represented the leading research institutions of Belarus. This is why, the President said, the talk will be a large-scale one, touching upon the most important problems of the national development.
According to the head of state, the Congress should determine the key tasks of the contemporary science and ways to handle them. “The scientific and technical development strategy we will determine will in many ways shape the image of the republic in ten years and later”, said Alexander Lukashenko.