Kabiakou: We’re given insane tasks (Video)
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10:35, — Economics
It wasn’t only the head of state who was talking crossly at the last meeting. Ministers were very irritated too when… they were arguing with Lukashenka.
The head of state began the conversation with the ministers in his common style, making an “innocent” remark about the vessels that had sunk in Kerchenskiy Straight. Our economy never sinks!
“This is an important and complicated task to take the country by its hand and lead this vessel so that it neither sinks nor crashes unlike the vessels in Kerchenskiy Straight,” Aliaksandar Lukashenka began his speech.
After that cameras caught strained looks of the ministers and displeased Lukashenka. The ministers tried to explain to Lukashenka that he had given them an “insane” task, Euroradio reports. Vice Prime Minister Kabiakou’s speech was most emotional:
“We certainly can set this, I’m sorry, insane task… to make the trade balance positive, plus $700 mln. But we will not manage that!!! Because otherwise we will ruin other figures!!! We can set the balance as a priority task. But in this case we will destroy the growth rate and investments influx. The economy must be balanced.”
“What are you talking about,” Lukashenka didn’t want to listen. “You must raise the cost if you have higher expenditures. Or am I wrong from the economic point of view?”
“Dear Aliaksandar Rygoravich, this is the market, we cannot impose our prices there,” Minister of Economy Mikalai Zaichanka tried to give a reasonable explanation and was accused by the president of… having too much faith in the economic laws.
“Don’t impose. Sell at higher prices! My dear! You’re talking right now as if you were in class with students,” the president refused to understand. “Just sell more. You should have sold tractors, automobiles, foodstuff at higher prices. You can say it’s hard. But who says it’s easy?”
Vice head of the presidential administration Leanid Anfimau produced the most mysterious phrase. He remarked the government might have a far too vague idea of what “the current situation can lead to”:
“Either the government don’t realize what the current situation can lead to, or perhaps they know clandestine tools that could help overcome the deadlock?”
The Belarusian nation would also like to know what is “can lead to,” but the TV reports didn’t say anything else.
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