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Alyaksandr Lukashenka on Wednesday appointed Aliaksandr Tsierakhau as deputy prime minister. Addressing him, he drew a logical connection from the situation in the Middle East to road construction. As deputy prime minister, Tsierakhau will oversee construction, transport and housing and utilities.
“Today our oil is a bit cheaper than for others. There was that spike because of the nonsense in the Middle East. But I think we will stabilize. But if today we have oil, and on top of that we trade oil with Russia at a certain discount, and roads are primarily bitumen, and bitumen is oil. We have everything else we need. And since oil is cheaper, we need to use this moment and improve our roads. The program has been defined. We need to have a strong, durable road from every agrotown to the district center. And preferably in reinforced concrete. Wherever possible, we need reinforced concrete, concrete roads.
“Where that is impossible, I say that we have a moment. This year, maybe a year and a half, when our prices will be lower than on global oil markets. That means we need to use bitumen for building these roads. Technologies as well. We learned how to build concrete roads. From whom? We learned from the Germans. We bought a couple or three of these vehicles, complexes from them and started laying these roads.
A very important issue for us is roads. We are a transit country. Almost every family has one or even two cars. And not only private transport”, Lukashenka said, according to his press service.
Another task set for the new appointee concerns construction.
“We will build a lot of housing. If we are reducing it in Minsk, that does not mean we will not build housing in satellite cities, especially rental housing, starting from agriculture to industry, and everywhere else”, he added.