Lukashenko instructs to prepare science reform program within three months

       A program of reforms in the Belarusian science should be developed within three months, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said a meeting on the issues of development of science in Belarus.
"In November we will get together with representatives of the scientific community, discuss everything over and will adopt a new program of science development in the country," the President said.
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         All issues will be addressed in a careful, thorough and public discussion in the course of partnership interaction between the scientific community and government bodies.
          Belarus takes a cautious approach to the reformation of the scientific sector. We are moving in this direction step by step, softly, gently, in a Belarusian way. And the steps that we have taken are small, and cannot be cited as arguments by those who would criticize us once again. Moreover, I have taken the steps only when the scientific community was unable to make their own proposals. 
          Alexander Lukashenko suggests only a governmental approach be used to the reformation of science. The head of state stressed he expects answers to fundamental issues: whether there is an program to upgrade the National Academy of Sciences and the sci-tech area, which goes in line with the spirit of time and development needs of science, and how the scientific sector should develop taking into account the tasks set forth by the economy and society.