President of Belarus to deliver annual Address to Belarusian people and National Assembly

18 апреля 2019

The President of Belarus tomorrow will deliver the annual Address to the Belarusian people and the National Assembly, the press service of the Belarusian leader reports. The event will traditionally be held in the Oval Hall of the Government House, where senior officials of the country, members of the government, heads of state administration bodies, major enterprises, universities and banks, representatives of the diplomatic corps,  and the media are invited. This year the Belarusian public is especially widely represented among those invited. These are deputies of the past convocations, members of the veteran organizations, the Union of Women, the public association "Belaya Rus", students, cadets of military universities, journalists of regional media.

The Message will conceptually reflect the main accents in the socio-economic development of the country at this stage. 

The speech of Alexander Lukashenko will be broadcast live on the TV channels Belarus 1, Belarus 24 and the First National Channel of the Belarusian Radio. The beginning  is at 10:30. The TV version of the Message will be shown on Belarusian TV channels in the evening.

The annual Address to the Belarusian people and the National Assembly is the main political event of the year. The government determines the strategy steps for the further development of the country. This is the  key document ,  a kind of roadmap for all branches and levels of government for the near future and tasks for society, how to build the  statehood and  improve the well-being.

Last year, the President talked about  the increasing spending on the social sphere, about developing the financial market and building an IT-country, sanction wars and European cooperation.