Lukashenka expects KGB to protect personal rule

Lukashenka has announced serious changes in foreign political and economic priorities of the country that directly influence the inner situation in the country.

“We have certain progress in relations with the West, the US and other states that is not the news for the KGB officers and country top officials. It cannot but influence the domestic situation in the country. It cannot but fall under competence of the country’s main secret service,” Lukashenka said at a meeting of the KGB board on Tuesday.

According to the head of state, “there have been significant changes in the country resulted from foreign political and economic priorities of the state”. “We became members of the Common Economic Space. You know the disadvantages and positive changes of this move,” Lukashenka said.

“We are members of the CSTO. We see very serious changes in this military and political bloc due to persistent pressure from Belarus,” the so called president added.

Lukashenka said to members of the board his main task was “listen to you”. “I want to know what is going in the country’s main security service,” Lukashenka marked.

He said he had had a meeting with KGB top officials before the meeting of the board. Lukashenka noted “the chief officers reported about the activity of most specific departments – intelligence and counterintelligence – about their success, failures and plans for the future”. “You know we took serious decisions concerning development of foreign intelligence and counterintelligence. I do not think it is a secret for our enemies,” the head of state noted.

The meeting was divided into two parts. During the first part, the KGB top officials reported to Lukashenka on the work of the most specific departments - intelligence and counterintelligence.

The head of state proposed to discuss general issues the KGB is dealing now.

All-out efforts to struggle with people

The Belarusian KGB thinks this year’s priority is providing safety and freedom of “expression of will” of the people of Belarus during the oncoming parliamentary elections and protecting the constitutional system. This is the way the secret service, which is supposed to protect the constitution and rights of Belarusians, calls the electoral farce under control of Lidzia Yarmoshyna’s Central Election Commission.

“In 2012, the main task remains the activity aimed at protecting the constitutional system of Belarus, preventing implanting political course on the republic that does not answer its national interests,” the KGB centre for information and public relations notes.

“The basic objective is providing safety, freedom of expression of will and other constitutional civil rights during the election to the House of Representatives of the National Assembly,” the KGB reports.

According to the KGB, the most important result of the work last year was cooperation with other bodies of national security, preserving Lukashenka’s personal rule stability and steadiness of the country’s political system.

“Due to joint efforts all state bodies, bound together by political will of the country’s president, we were able to overcome this hardest period, retain control and management of the situation, prevent political and economic turmoil in the country,” the materials of the KGB centre for information and public relations say.

As noted by the KGB, the most negative factors in last year’s situation were “flagrant external interference with internal affairs of the Republic of Belarus and pressure on the government”. The Belarusian KGB also marks “intensified attempts of leaders of radical political groups to stir up mass protests among citizens and lead the situation out of control also by using social networking websites”.

The KGB analyzed last year’s situation and noticed “unprecedented discrediting the governmental bodies, first of all the institutions of the president, the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and aspiration of the ‘fifth column’ to use temporary social and economic problems for own purposes and stir up hysteria over the crisis”.

The KGB emphasizes “the people of Belarus again demonstrated wisdom despite all efforts of the ‘fifth column’ and its foreign sponsors”.