Lukashenka: “Consultative council is not a parliamentary platform for pushing dirty ideas”

• 10.02.2009, 15:59

Alyaksandr Lukashenka said members of newly created Public Consultative Council, among them oppositionists, should work out business proposals and not push “dirty ideas”.

“Well, let it be a council. Come, talk, make your suggestions. But if one thinks it will be a parliamentary platform suitable for shouting and pushing dirty ideas, it is a mistake,” A. Lukashenka told journalists in Lida (the Hrodna region).

According to him, “it may be only a meaningful conversation and a meaningful council.” “If you criticise, speak to the question,” the head of state suggested.

Commenting on the results of the first session of the Public Consultative Council, A. Lukashenka asked: “What new and great did you learn from opposition? I learnt nothing.”

It should be reminded that some decorative “councils” with participation of different experts have been created at Lukashenka’s administration to demonstrate the so called liberalization.