Leanid Zaika: During a fire people do most dire things
24- 5.08.2009, 9:53
Independent experts say that the situation with adoption and denouncing the Resolution No. 991 of the Council of Ministers “needs help of psychiatrist”.
Explanations of Syarhei Sidorski, that the notorious resolution No. 991 applies only to state-run companies and companies with a government share was unlikely to bring relief to the business-community. About 75% of Belarusian enterprises are state-owned, said the head of the analytical centre “Strategy” Leanid Zaika to the website www.udf.by.
As said by the expert, after the resolution No.991 was adopted, private wholesale trade was “on the verge of a foul”. “It would be impossible for private trade to survive after that,” the economist states.
The resolution No.991 has been characterized by Leanid Zaika as a belated and incompetent attempt to overcome warehouse overstocking.
“This resolution shows the need for a psychiatrist’s help, as they were inactive since January, while warehouse depots were shooting up like a beanstalk. And now such a resolution is adopted while in Western Europe all warehouses have been cleared. I was in Germany, Poland, in the Czech Republic. There are massive sales there; everything has gone under the hammer. And here in Belarus some strange kind of wholesale trade is being created. It is too late, it is incompetent,” the expert said.
The government acts like during a fire, and addresses of officials have created a deplorable impression, Leanid Zaika said.
“As for statements of Zajchanka and Sidorski, they had a rather sad impression on me. People are just talking formally that something should be done. Lukashenka is to check non-distributed stocks, and they will pretend that they are moving something, some parcels; some carriages are moved by their manly ministers’ shoulders. This could be estimated professionally as a situation resembling a fire. When a fire starts, people are doing most dire things. You know, what people start to carry away first? Samovars, pillows… That’s the kind of a samovar we have here,” the economist said.
As we have informed, on August 4 Alyaksandr Lukashenka demanded Prime Minister Syarhei Sidorski “to immediately rectify” the situation with the Resolution No. 991. On the evening of the same day it was informed that the Council of Ministers denounced that document. As said by businessmen, over the days of forced downtime caused by the resolution No. 991, Belarusian companies lost from $5,000 to $100,000.
