Lutsky on 30th anniversary of first President election: that was key event in Belarus’ history
On July 10th, 1994, the second round of the first presidential elections in Belarus took place, and that was a key event in the country’s history – as stated by the Chairman of the Commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, a member of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, Igor Lutsky, in his talk with journalists after a session of the commission in Moscow
As noted by Mr. Lutsky, this July is eventful for Belarus: it is marked with the 80th anniversary of the country’s liberation from Nazi invaders, Independence Day and the republic’s accession to the SCO. Moreover, he believes the second round of the 1994 presidential elections, in which Aleksandr Lukashenko won, was special for Belarus, “That was a key event in the history of Belarus, as it was then when the President outlined the guidelines of the policy that he has been pursuing for thirty years: Belarus was to be a socially oriented state, a country for the people. It is thanks to this that today we live in peace, that Belarus is a member of the Union State with the Russian Federation, and that our people support each other.”
Mr. Lutsky recalled that, in 1994, more than 80 percent of Belarusians voted for a young man who said: ‘I will lead the country away from the abyss’, “We live in a state for the people, in a peaceful country now. Probably no one believed that we could build a socially oriented state with a high level of technology and medicine development, that we would have ‘our own space’ and our own nuclear power plant. In fact, 30 years are an absolutely short period from a historical point of view, and we have managed to achieve all this thanks to Aleksandr Lukashenko, the President of the Republic of Belarus. Over this period, as the Head of State said at a solemn meeting on July 2nd, the people have turned into a nation, becoming a united monolith. We can assert now that it is the President who consolidates our society, it is he who makes it united.”
