President makes new personnel appointments

27 января 2015

By Sergei Khamentovsky: Making personnel appointments, the President stressed the need to work conscientiously, maintaining discipline and acting in the interests of the people and the state. The seven new managers will have to work in difficult conditions, with an accurate and balanced approach to decision making.

The personnel day was marked by strengthening the regional power vertical. Head of the Presidential Administration Alexander Kosinets introduced the chairmen of the Novopolotsk, Braslav and Tolochin district executive committees. Alexander Butarev and Andrei Zubar were appointed heads of the Kirov and Cherven districts respectively. A new deputy governor was appointed to the Minsk region. Oleg Plavsky and Viktor Sirenko also got promoted.

Addressing the new leaders, the President also touched upon discipline as well as civil servant salaries, which are likely to increase with the optimization of the state apparatus. He also pointed out the golden rule of every manager – which is taking care of subordinates.

The President appointed Ivan Romanovich and Irina Kangro First Deputy Chairmen of the State Control Committee and the National Statistics Committee respectively. Zhanna Vasilevskaya is from now on Deputy Head of the National Statistics Committee. Igor Sokol became Head of the Office of the Council of Ministers; Yevgeny Kovalenko took over the National Centre of Legal Information. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Syria Alexander Ponomarev will concurrently represent the interests of Belarus in Lebanon.

The President also approved the appointment of Igor Klepcha as First Deputy Minister of Taxes and Duties, Gennady Svidersky as First Deputy Industry Minister, Alexander Dubkovsky as Deputy Minister of Sport and Tourism, Yuri Seliverstov as Deputy Finance Minister, Irina Kostevich as Deputy Economy Minister, Mikhail Chashchin as Director of the Informatization Department of the Communications and Informatization Ministry, Sergei Bobko as Director of the Department for Construction Inspection and Surveillance of the State Standardization Committee, Vadim Zaryankin as member of the Vitebsk Region Executive Committee.