In 2008 Belarus will meet all socio-economic targets but for the foreign trade projections, Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky said at a session of the Council of Ministers on December 9. The year 2008 was quite difficult but we are ending it on a good note. According to preliminary estimates, all main socio-economic targets will be achieved but for foreign trade. This shows that the decisions taken by the President, Government have yielded certain effect, the Prime Minister said. Opening the session of the Council of Ministers, Sergei Sidorsky said that it is time that we started addressing the issues, which will be crucial for the economic performance of the country during the global economic crisis in 2009. They include, first of all, foreign trade, export potential, investment and innovation in the economy. “The main goal is to assess objectively outside threats. Unfortunately, the crisis has been gathering pace affecting more and more countries. As Belarus is an export-oriented state, the crisis is affecting the real production sector, especially its basic industries. We have to define weak and strong positions of the economy to forecast the indices at the end of the year,” Sergei Sidorsky said. According to the Prime Minister, the main thing is to preserve the real production sector; close attention should be given to optimization and reduction of expenditures. БЕЛТА
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